Artillery Row
Land acknowledgements are very modern in their silliness
Of course history was cruel — but not just our own
Boris Johnson, the Wrath of God
On the resurrection of the bloated Lazarus
Welcome to the big stink
Under Sadiq Khan, London is being surrendered to anti-social behaviour
A straight woman cannot be a gay man
We should stop misleading each other and ourselves
What killed English football fandom?
Fans are being priced out and domesticated
In Brussels, the fish rots from the head
The EU is violating its own core values
The great wage squeeze
Why is everyone in Britain paid the same amount?
We have to deal with the rise in long-term sickness
It is outrageous that millions are out of work and we don’t know why
Integration for the nation
Britain needs a narrative of unity, and a harsher attitude towards separatism
Welsh nationalism is a paper dragon
The prospects of Plaid Cymru are being exaggerated
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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
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground