Take back London for pedestrians
How to tackle the capital’s problem cyclists
A Reformed Britain — if you can govern it
Reform must become a governing party if it is to survive
Historic failure
If the past is a foreign country, it’s one against which we appear to be racist
Ground control to Major Keir
Why is British ambition perpetually sacrificed on the altar of “efficiency”?
Britain has gone uni tunes
There is no defence for the expansion of the university system
Race to the bottom
How has ethnicity become such an inescapable and toxic topic?
Things can only get worse
There is a vast epistemic divide between those who experience decline, and those who don’t
Christianity is a culture
Christianity is not just a private faith, nor a set of traditions, but a way of individual and collective life
Breaking the bro code
A new film provides an unusually sympathetic portrait of dislocated masculinity
The dark roots of the University of Edinburgh racism review
Extremism appears to be more of a problem with the university’s present than its past
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands