Artillery Row
Building a house on rock
Danny Kruger was right about Britain and Christianity
Don’t arrest Palestine Action supporters
You do not have to like the group to think arresting its defenders is a step too far
Israel should not freeze out Jerusalem’s Christians
Politicians must encourage local authorities to back away from the churches
Prohibiting pints instead of doing politics
Reducing the drink-drive limit will sound good and achieve nothing
Nicola Sturgeon’s feminist fairy tale
For all the rhetoric, she made life worse for Scottish women
Protectionism is highway robbery
Free trade is good in moral and practical terms
The immigration dam has burst
Finally, there is space for rational debate on the consequences of mass migration
A series of dreaming clichés
My Oxford Year is a trend-obsessed pastiche
British voters do not want the EU to make their laws for them
Despite decades of spin, British voters want British laws to be made in Britain
Don’t dismiss Kemi Badenoch’s atheism
The problem of evil is a very real one
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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
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work