Joel Day
Joel Day is a freelance features writer and the former deputy special projects editor at the Daily Express
The war of words over Estonia’s Soviet monuments
Despite three decades of independence, Estonia’s Soviet past is still a cause of division
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
Not everyone should be in therapy
Over-medicalisation hurts the healthy and the suffering alike
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
The collapse of the Tory Party has just begun
How Reform crippled the Conservatives
In defence of anons
Anonymous accounts did not cause the rioting, so why are they being blamed?
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed