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Renewing culture for the Right
Why should the culture sector should still be in thrall to the left?
Wrangling over the writings of a rogue
Are we right to be amused by the diary of a sexual predator?
Will “they” catch on?
Pronouns are far too interesting to be left to trans activists on either side
Security guarantees can guarantee insecurity
Trump should say no to a U.S.-Saudi defence deal
Baroque in a bad way
Vikingur Olafsson: Opus 109 (DG)
Britain, remembered
Remembrance risks becomes a state ritual for an untrusted and despised establishment
Beijing sees AI as the foundation of a new industrial age
Just as Britain’s steam engines were bound into networks, China is building the infrastructure to let AI expand
Cezanne 25 at Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence was Cezanne’s refuge — or as close to one as this troubled, insecure artist could manage
Lyrical wormholes into the past
A powerful evangelist for poetry, without a coherent proposition about English identity
The new “enemy within”
Britain needs clear thinking and cheap energy
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
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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 Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished