Artillery Row
Why I’m defecting to Reform
The Conservative Party has failed Britain
On snatching a phone
We should all take steps to resist anti-social behaviour
Transcending misery
Galina Ustvolskaya: Symphonies 1-5 (BIS)
Reform’s uncut fringe
The party’s lunatic element is still in good health
A Reformed Britain — if you can govern it
Reform must become a governing party if it is to survive
A tale of two conferences
The camp tone of the Reform conference masks genuine political seriousness
Against lifestylism
Begging the state to fix the symptoms of societal dysfunction is the politics of losers
Eco-populism is both silly and dangerous
It will not have mass appeal but it could radicalise people
Why many Ukrainians have stopped speaking Russian
Ukraine’s culture, as well as its people and land, needs defending
Murders for September
The best and worst crime fiction for September
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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
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics