Archives
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area