Artillery Row
Why are the Greens so miserable?
Can we not protect nature and have fun at the same time?
A clean-up job for bullshit politics
A case against “TERFs” uses interesting research in the service of the absurd
The process of yookay-ification
Our author takes a personal tour around an emerging country
A heap of broken images
A new book finds some clarity in our unstable world
Why we should meet our meat
Britons should be closer to the food that they will eat
Nigel’s nuclear family
Everyone is dispensable at Reform UK, except for one man
We have to prevent Prevent from undermining freedom
The grounds for a referral are dangerously broad
Simone’s bile
Simone Biles appears to have misread public opinion over trans people in sports
A burqa ban would not be un-British
Whatever our perspective, we should stop misappropriating history
The nihilism of Middle Eastern immigrants
Cut off from family, nation and purpose, many incomers aren’t actually happy in Europe
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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
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet