Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation.
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly