The globalisation of sin taxes
The FCTC is a revealing exemplar of the unaccountable global quangocracy
For a good cause?
National Lottery funding and activist organisations
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
Dear Keir, get real
Instead of announcing grand new doctrines, it’s time for a very British realism
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
Women in prisons deserve better
Classifying male criminals as women adds insult to injury
