Artillery Row
Lord Hermer’s friends and enemies
The attorney general has offered an accidental insight into the true nature of Starmerite proceduralism
Oval’s books go up in bureaucracy
We should mourn the loss of Oval Tube’s book swap library
The Boriswave hasn’t even hit the shore
If new migration rules aren’t applied retrospectively, the Boriswave could yet cost £230 billion
Rule of the playground
Don’t run to the teacher if you don’t get your way in Parliament
The day of the drones
Ukraine has embarrassed the Kremlin and damaged Russia — but what comes next?
Labour has not lived up to its promises on skills
Bridget Phillipson must change course to deliver the change that Britain needs
Look back in anger
Overbearing sentimentality was the wrong response to acts of jihadist murder
Don’t trust the BBC on grooming gangs
Newsnight’s data on the ethnicity of criminals is obviously unreliable
The X Minister
Cooper is dominant in Parliament while Jenrick follows the eyeballs
The legal system is not keeping Britons safe
Judges should not be softer on criminals for being constitutionally rather than calculatedly dangerous
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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
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears