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She’s not the messiah…
Watching Greta Thunberg and the hysterical devotion she arouses, I am reminded of Judaism’s best-known self-styled redeemer
A belly full of agitpropera
Opera really doesn’t need the help of activist directors when it comes to politics — it’s all there already
The desert martinet
Viscount Montgomery: tactless, arrogant and with no instinct for politics
Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
A full stop in Sussex
Lisa Hilton is influenced by a Booker Prize shortlisted novel as she samples gastropub grub
Heaven in a tin
Improvise in the kitchen, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Black to basics
Hannah Betts on the colour with which you can’t go wrong
The free speech crisis at Britain’s universities
The massive left-wing bias on campus is putting conservative students at risk
Buck fizz
Patrick Galbraith describes the exhilaration of hunting
Marathon maniac
Nick Cohen ran and ran and did himself no good in the process
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech