Supervisory moralism at the cinema
The films of Paul King manage thorny political problems through children’s fantasies
Star-crossed Labour
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are a classic doomed couple
How Dostoyevsky dissected activistic hypocrites
Dostoyevsky’s outrageous grotesque now runs riot in our institutions
The hollow horseman
Wole Soyinka’s postcolonial pride offers no answers to Nigeria’s Christian deaths
No one needs “privilege” to enjoy the theatre
Why Daniel Day-Lewis is wrong to think the working class need permission to go to the theatre
The Pryce is wrong
Didactic drama is often artistically empty and politically misleading
Graham Linehan, Reprobate
How William Blake explained the dynamics of successful dissent
The cross language of flags
Progressives are missing an opportunity to prove that they value inclusion
The transferable skills scam
How higher education learned to stop worrying about disciplines and love generic competencies
How the police learn two-tier policing
The institutional culture of the university is reshaping the everyday instincts of frontline police
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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
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taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities