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The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Real culture wars
On the perils of being on the right side of art history
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre