Tacsi for a moribund language
Why condemn a million Welsh people to a parochial linguistic straitjacket?
The road to Book Pyre Beacon
The cult of Woke has old roots, deep in the mulch of evangelical intolerance
Le Pétain nouveau
France should look across the Channel before electing a journalist as president
Guru of regurgitation
Time for self-styled “design guru” Stephen Bayley to move on from his erstwhile mentor, monstrous Sir Tel
Storm in a frying pan
The row over sending great British bangers to Bangor illustrates a dismal lack of gastronomic culture
The regeneration game
A hideous babel of gimmicky buildings that scream: “Me! Me! Me!”
Call the junk-monger
The trashy Downing Street makeover is a criminal act of hideous uglification
Opiate of the masses
TV has become a branch of the pharmaceutical industry doling out heavy sedatives
Sex and the singular fisherman
Pike abound in British rivers yet are seldom caught for the table
Short cut to a Mob takeover
Today the multiply-tattooed Balkan war criminal look is popular
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
