Artillery Row
In defence of Blue Labour
It might be old-fashioned and romantic but it has been ahead of the times
Family matters
Jephtha, Il Pomo d’Oro, Barbican
What’s the beef with American beef?
Tariff-free beef imports could harm British farmers and consumers
Keir Starmer is right to scrap the care worker visa
It might cause disruption but the status quo is unsustainable
Of course we shouldn’t dim the sun
Dominic Cummings is casting a lot more heat than light
The odd couple
Labour and Reform seem to be locked in an uneasy embrace
Britain is not an immigrant nation
This dumb ahistorical meme should be rejected
Nationalising childhood
The government wants to crackdown on home educators — has it tried talking to them instead?
The thick blue line
The problem with humourless police officers
Is the “Boriswave” a useful concept?
Opponents of mass migration are obscuring the historical record
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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
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
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
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)