The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?