Artillery Row
Is smoking cool again?
Attempts to stamp out cigarettes could be having unintended consequences
Will Donald Trump be good or bad for academic freedom?
The academia needed to be shaken up — but how will the pieces fall?
London has become a thief’s paradise
Sadiq Khan and the government must clamp down on mobile phone theft
Reject rioting revisionism
Legitimate grievances do not justify illegitimate behaviour
Kneecap are the establishment’s idea of rebellion
The hip hop trio are more pathetic than iconoclastic
“Adolescence” is not a documentary
The successful drama series should not necessarily become a guide to policy
A load of balls
Chris Philp’s colourful body language summed up the feelings of MPs on both sides of Parliament
Parents, not the state, should be responsible for children
What has happened to parents when kids cannot brush their teeth?
Electric hallucinations
We need new and more incisive artistic critiques of technology
The myths of upper normie civic nationalism
Folk beliefs of the upper normie #1
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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
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion