Artillery Row
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies