Artillery Row
The Conservative immigration betrayal
The Tories have delivered immigration on an absolutely unprecedented scale
Labour are playing with fire on abortion
There is no case for decriminalising late-term abortion
Desperate policies for desperate people
That Conservative policy platform in full
Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
A question of selection
The Sensible Centrists have made a flawed case against party members choosing leaders
Surprise and tension
Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)
Big Brother is talking to you
What is with London’s obsession for dystopian public address announcements?
The fall of the House of Rejoin
A popular cause has withered into an elitist dinner club
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
A guide to British electoral vocabulary
From “adviser” to “woman”, here is what it really means
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Et tu, Labour?
The betrayal of language learning
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
