Artillery Row
Watch out James!
It’s looking up for The Spectator’s TV Critic
In praise of cars
Britain should hit the brakes on the anti-car agenda and embrace driving
The meaning and meaninglessness of military parades
A show of force might be a disturbing display of intent but it says nothing about military readiness
Labour’s housing ice age
The goverment is leaving potential homeowners out in the cold
Why Malcolm Gladwell’s trans retraction won’t ever be enough
If you don’t speak when it counts then it will always be too late
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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The (in)justice of the Equality Act
Far from guaranteeing equal treatment, the Equality Act has transformed Britain’s understanding of equality from individual rights to group identity
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty