Trouble beneath the surface
Labour’s triumph obscures worrying signs of division and chaos brewing in British society
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
Dune and progressive media illiteracy
Leftist moralism obscures thematic depth in its frantic rush to judge
Miserable managerialism at Magdalen
Gimmicky stakeholder management is failing the spirit of the university
The publisher and the police
The case of Ernest Moret has drawn attention to a sinister abuse of power
The soul of gender
How trans ideology appeals to deep spiritual instincts
For we are one and unfree
Australia doesn’t care about free speech, and it doesn’t want to
Deconstructing the pro-EU fantasies of the FT
22.5 per cent agrifood export growth? They must be joking
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
Would you trust PC Brother?
The use of unreliable facial recognition technology is growing without sufficient scrutiny or accountability
The future is blue
With Corbynite leadership and conservative members, Unite embodies Labour’s identity crisis
The sordid truth about the 68ers?
Some claim the “anything goes” philosophy of the left-wing intelligentsia resulted in sex crimes
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
We are the cultural Norns
Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for
Put the money back into politics
Business and politics rubbed along much better before restrictions were introduced
Dear Keir, get real
Instead of announcing grand new doctrines, it’s time for a very British realism
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
Playing the ball
The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
Wearing shades
We plebs aren’t supposed to buy designer-influenced fast fashion anymore
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?