Artillery Row
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback