Benedict Spence
Benedict Spence is a freelance commentator who has written for The Telegraph, The Independent, The Spectator, City AM and elsewhere. He tweets at @BenedictSpence
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Weren’t the grownups meant to be back in charge?
Shallow managerialism has failed us already
The problem with football pundits
Why are we so often stuck with inarticulate ex-pros?
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?