Against the new witch-hunt in the arts
Art, if it means anything, must be more than propaganda
Reclaiming freedom in the arts
Great art that speaks of today cannot be made in a climate of fear
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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 EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions