A bird-lover’s lament
Patrick Galbraith’s debut offers a quirkily enjoyable journey through a netherworldly Britain
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid