Artillery Row
The drowning man of Europe?
The cooling of Western attitudes towards Ukraine
The empty gap
The meaning of the felling of the Sycamore Gap
How siege warfare returned
Dark histories offer insight into our dark present
On a different plane
British air power in theory and practice
Disposable vapes and the race to prohibition
The state should enforce existing rules, not ban disposable vapes
The opportunistic assault on GB News
This is an attempt to shut down the competition
Self-ID and unprincipled exceptions
Why do we forget new gender norms when it’s convenient?
Everybody I hate is a groomer
Hyperbole and hysteria in the rule of empire of online puritanism
Conscience and the courts
It’s called jury service, not jury suggestions
Good riddance to the “conversion therapy” bill
It would have represented an attack on free speech
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
