Courtly love
Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King by Gareth Russell
The Road and the fork-tongue rogues
Minoo Dinshaw fills in the gaps in an official guide to Scottish history
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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
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration