Artillery Row
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
The decriminalisation dress rehearsal
Extremist MPs are pushing abortion up to birth
J.D. Vance was right about censorship
The tide of censorship is turning in the West
There is such a thing as being too old to become a parent
Narratives of progress, freedom and liberation cannot overcome all limits
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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
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right