Artillery Row
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
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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
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
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism