Artillery Row
The NIMBY menace
This is not planning, it’s a druidic biodiversity inquisition wrapped in DEFRA jargon
A Lester man
Beware of the fusion of history and progressive activism
Low mimetic nation
Why Britain keeps mistaking TV for real life
A much-misunderstood composer
The Cosmos of Paul Ben-Haim (CPO)
WNO’s curtain call?
Behind the ovations for Britten’s masterpiece looms the death of opera in Wales
No time to DEI
Barclays goes back to the dark ages
Steel yourselves
Summoned from our ploughs, and our lawnmowers, to seize the means of production
We need automation, not mass migration
We should follow East Asia in using robotics to make up for fertility decline
Give this word a miss
We should be respectful enough to use appropriate honorifics
A sign of dominance
The Irish language crocodile is never satisfied
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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 Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be