Why violence is political
Attempts to de-politicise the murder of Anne Widdecombe will fail
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
How should Christian organisations respond to illegal migration?
It is wrong to think that Christianity demands that we open our borders
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
The ankle tag and the ballot box
The courts convicted Marine Le Pen, but left her political fate to French voters
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
Our AI overlords will end bigotry
Bring on the machines
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
Spielberg’s ho-hum space chase
Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life