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Flickering with fire and ice
Beethoven: 1st piano concerto, &c (DG)
Is the party over for festivals?
Why music festivals have lost their purpose
The descent of man
The mainstreaming of misandry
Liz Truss: what if…?
An insider’s guide to a premiership cut short
The drowning man of Europe?
The cooling of Western attitudes towards Ukraine
The empty gap
The meaning of the felling of the Sycamore Gap
How siege warfare returned
Dark histories offer insight into our dark present
On a different plane
British air power in theory and practice
Disposable vapes and the race to prohibition
The state should enforce existing rules, not ban disposable vapes
The opportunistic assault on GB News
This is an attempt to shut down the competition
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad