Artillery Row
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
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 lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas