Artillery Row
Thinking inside the box
Leadbeater is a jolly speaker, chivvying us onwards
The C of E’s anti-bullying schools guidance is worse than ever
Children in church schools are taught trans affirmation and critical race theory
Dodging drones in the Red Zone
Despite the terror, Ukrainians are not giving up
Ed Miliband does not understand economics
Why employment figures aren’t the right metric for energy policy
Trump cannot pick a fight with everyone
A scattershot trade war risks US predominance
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
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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
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?