Artillery Row
Why on Earth do people listen to “The Rest Is Politics”?
Left-leaning bourgeois Brits need their centrist comfort blanket
On first going to church
The bromides of secular materialism are not enough to explain and justify life
In defence of online anonymity
Anons are not just rude or radical — they are challenging stale orthodoxies
Does Nicola Sturgeon believe women?
It is not enough to only trust women when it is convenient
The problem with “citation justice”
A seemingly noble ambition excessively politicises scholarship
What did the Tory wets expect?
The Sensibles should reassess how sensible they have actually been
God alone can bind our nation together
The Church may yet prove to be the last anchor of national life
What’s the point of a council?
The Epping model vs the Birmingham model
Some observations on public commemoration
Memorials should be meaningful, not mawkish
No relationship with the keyboard
Pierre Boulez/Alfred Schnittke: Piano works (Naxos/BIS)
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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
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration