Nothing ventured
Why the statue-smashers can’t tolerate civil society
Diversity north of Dundee
A Highlands culture war
The Government stole Christmas
For small businesses, Sunak’s billion is a pimple patch on a sucking chest wound
A Shropshire shock for Boris
The by-election result was one of rage rather than politics
Why the other parties should stand
Deflecting ourselves from our own traditions is exactly what terrorists want
Tristram and the tyrants
Laurence Sterne’s 250-year-old masterpiece is a radical, riotous celebration of liberty loathed by both Nazis and communists
In China’s pocket
Tech UK is taking money from CCP-influenced tech giants to lobby UK politicians
Priest holes and priest hunters
By excluding the unvaccinated from the Eucharist, the church sets its face against the faithful
Could monarchy have saved Afghanistan?
America’s republican prejudices stopped them from restoring a unifying king
Gone to the dogs
A once iconic sport is in retreat across the Western World
Most Read
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.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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
The man who ended overreach
Lord Reed’s tenure as president of the Supreme Court has been admired by those who value the stability of the law
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Standout singers
If Music (Erato), Day of These Days (Delphian) & Eisnacht (Genuin)
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave