The sacredness of sounds
A fascinating new book explores the transcendent qualities of sound
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
The meaning of laughs
In praise of Douglas Adams, a comedy legend
Humphries and the humourless
Cancel culture is often midges biting giants
Unpeeling The Onion
How politics kills humour
The game of laughter
A backstage look at stand-up comedy
Risk your neck, save your soul
Against the sterility of safetyism
On pretending to have read books
It is an art in itself
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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.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
The story of a lifetime
Whole life novels lay bare the randomness and haphazardness of life
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Worldviews apart
There are disturbing differences between how British Muslims and non-Muslims see the world