Artillery Row
The vanishing of the aspirational lower-middle class
A favourite punching bag of satirists was more noble and valuable than it seemed
The British state is a machine that kills its operators
The system is the problem, not Keir Starmer
Help your local LOSER
A special charity appeal
Banning BOGOFs? Bog off!
It’s not just “no silver bullet” — it simply won’t work
What has Brexit done for us?
A lot more than Remainers would be willing to admit
It’s not 1933
Nazi comparisons are misrepresenting the past and the present alike
Progressivism in criminal justice needs locking up
It is based on absurdities and has created misery
Red flags
Starmer blames two people for everything that is wrong with Britain: Nigel Farage and Tony Blair
Have shoppers had enough of woke branding?
ESG principles are embedded within our corporate culture
Reform may not be able to stop the Boriswave
Boriswavers may already be citizens by the time Nigel Farage becomes PM
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country