Guess Huw?
Time for a media law reset
Our inquiry problem
British public inquiries take forever and achieve too little
Taking the clown seriously
Jolyon Maugham’s prose is funny, but his ideas are dangerous
False hope and online therapy
What the cloying advertorials conceal
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods