The veneration of Saint Jacinda
Ardern’s career is a foretaste of a quieter and less frightening world in which workplace feminism has triumphed
The long arm of the Chekists
This book is an apt metaphor for the state of freedom of speech in modern Britain
Sincerely ducking the hard questions
Nick Cohen reveals how this book, along with hundreds of political writers like him, ducks the reality of working class life
The end of the road
Nick Cohen has adopted a new workout: wrestling with a novel
The talk of the track
Nick Cohen compiles a phrase book for neophyte runners
Through a glass, darkly
Nick Cohen on the ill-starred but seductive love affair between writers and alcohol
Justice warriors
Nick Cohen says pounding the streets brings its own rewards
Round up the ordinary subjects
A free society cannot remain free if it implements the social justice movement’s bizarre ideology of vilifying ordinary people
The sin of pride
Nick Cohen blames testosterone for his latest sports injury
Glorious mud
Nick Cohen is badly bitten by the cross-country bug
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
