Artillery Row
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Bad education
Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
