Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
A police school for scandal
f it’s 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
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
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
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes