Artillery Row
JD Vance was right about free speech in Britain
But why did it take the American VP to draw attention to the criminalisation of pro-life thought?
Hamlet’s buoyant reinvention
Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy finds fresh momentum aboard a doomed ship
Trump’s poodle
Nigel Farage is talking about Ukraine but talking to Washington
Is Nigel Farage growing up?
His response to Ukraine suggests that Reform are growing more professional
Everyone lost in the Battle of the Oval Office
Trump, Vance and Zelensky erred and Xi and Putin will have smiled
The Brexiteer’s case for a European Army
Here, and not in the EU, Europeans will be better together
Don’t trust Labour on defence
Starmer’s surge in defence spending is all bark, no bite
The last days of Eric Liddell
God made him for a purpose — for China
Glorious things
This addition to the literature on monuments and commemoration is very welcome
Making Shakespeare zip
These new productions of Richard II and Much Ado About Nothing are pacy and fresh
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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
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work