High priestess of a new morality
At times Portrait of a Muse feels like a Julian Fellowes soap opera where we see this woman of extraordinary vivacity making great men go weak at the knees
The best of Heads
Sir Eric Anderson employed the best and let them get on with it
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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
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting