Where’s the future?
Rishi Sunak’s budget is taking us back to the 1970s, but with none of the fun
Bleak streets
Freedom to die on the streets is no freedom at all
Life of the party
Party conferences are insights into the parties’ souls — insights that are not always reassuring
Past his prime
Even the President of the United States has to know when to retire
Resurrecting the great British sitcom
We are getting dangerously close to saying British sitcom itself should be off limits
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
Give the Doctor his heart(s) back
Wokeness is killing Doctor Who
Copping the lot
Why are death taxes staying when every other economic orthodoxy is going?
Small talk and big asks
Men’s mental health is a serious matter — but it is wrong to expect people to be lifesavers
The glorious Ninth
Relive the moments when music changed forever
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
Playing the ball
The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
