In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
How the police eats its own
Cowardice and ideology have turned the management against the officers
This “police reform” will fix nothing
A new white paper might as well have been left as white paper
The blue chimera
Our alternately toothless and overbearing police forces are Westminster’s creatures
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
Spielberg’s ho-hum space chase
Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation