Artillery Row
Britain has to break its addiction to debt
A policy of endless borrowing has been a miserable failure
It’s time to deport Paddington Bear
What do we really know about this undocumented Peruvian hooligan?
Does Adolescence tell us anything new about masculinity in crisis?
The misogyny of young men on the internet is not so different from misogyny elsewhere
Social media is just the latest enemy of public health puritans
Screens might not be good for us, but that is no excuse for a moral panic
Against Mike Tappism
Britishness cannot be reduced to a collection of ill-defined “values”
Playtime’s over
It was an austere Spring Statement for an austere government
Gary Stevenson is a new voice for old ideas
Garyism is a triumph of style over substance
Al fresco or Tesco
Which way, young Western man?
How Nicola Sturgeon cooked her grouse
The former First Minister of Scotland is beyond suspicion — except by her own standards
The evils of obligatory lying
Compelled lying discriminates against Christians
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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
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics