We must get serious about being intolerant of intolerance
History is clear: excepting blasphemy from freedom of expression causes far more and far greater suffering than it prevents
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
