Artillery Row
The best-laid plans
A decade-old novel is worth reconsidering for how it addresses the questions of modernity
What’s a feminist to make of male cheerleaders?
There is no magic in female-coded clothes and activities
Britain’s cost of living crisis has been made in SW1
It is not “weaponising” the cost of living crisis to identify its real roots
In defence of the Online Safety Act
The legislation is flawed, but a welcome step
Britain doesn’t need a strongman, it needs a spine
Politicians must stop delaying difficult decisions
Race to the bottom
How has ethnicity become such an inescapable and toxic topic?
The pitfalls of peer review
The supposed gold standard for academic rigour can be nothing of the kind
The Conservatives must push what is falling
Kemi Badenoch has failed and it is time to move on
Two-tier Britain laid bare
The British state is perpetrating systematic injustice
The doctors’ danse macabre
Assisted suicide is not enlightened but a step towards a new dark age
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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
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive