Protest and the public good
Republicanism, free speech and the heckler’s veto
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
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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
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
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword