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Devilishly good
This menu for this month is black food, with a small “b”
The “No Debate” dodos
“Trans women are women, no debate” is what American psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton called a thought-terminating cliche
Hamlet is not about resistance
Why Riz Ahmed’s reading gets the play wrong
Who has the right to speak in universities?
Invitations should not be rescinded — but no one has the right to an invitation
The lost soul of Hungarian music
Leo Weiner: Violin concerto (Naxos)
Why Essex is Britain’s most right-wing county
Essex is both traditionalist and highly entrepreneurial
Pollyannaish study is a missed opportunity
Being Victorian: How it Felt Then, Why it Matters Now by Jamie Camplin
Where the Eagle dared
The “Pilot of the Future” might finally have reason to be proud of British engineering
The sloppening
The AI ideologues misunderstand what makes humans special
Save the Palace of Westminster!
The refusal of the public procurement system to behave reasonably is not an excuse to destroy Parliament
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
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve