Artillery Row
End of a bullfighting era
Morante may now retire, weeping like Alexander because there are no more lands to conquer
Twilight of the Canadian boomer
Boomer Laurentianus is enjoying a long soak in managed decline
In praise of private policing
We should be willing to pay more for less crime
What have galleries got against British art?
Our curators are embarrassed by our own cultural treasures
Notes on suicide
The assisted dying debate had the incongruous air of a garden party
A dying culture
With the barbarians at the gate, this vote was a last sacrifice to the NHS
Priti terrible
How can the Conservatives trumpet their success on grooming gangs while Priti Patel is a shadow minister?
A rare victory for free speech
The seven year saga of Kristie Higgs is finally over: she has been totally vindicated
Who benefits from the two child cap lift?
Welfare is unevenly distributed by ethnicity
Dispensing with Iran
Is the modern state of Israel the same as the biblical one?
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
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Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war