Artillery Row
Why won’t the Chief Constable hold my sign?
I didn’t even ask her to agree with it
Don’t blame smartphones for everything
It is a mistake to turn real problems into moral panics
The bomb Europe needs
We have to make our threats of retaliation seem more credible
The silk road
Martin Ellis Jones brought colour to the world as well as hats
Europe is not ready to defend Ukraine
The Ukrainians should not confuse lofty rhetoric for an actual plan
When gangsters move in next door
The British state is unwilling and unable to deal with unwanted neighbours
Kronsteen vs Blofeld
Blofeld has got messianic qualities. But I intended that as a compliment
Physician associates are not a problem to be cured
The argument against PAs in the NHS remains unconvincing
No thanks, America
Americans should stop insulting Europe — but Europe should stop allowing itself to be insulted
The case for lowering the minimum wage
It is a major and predictable cause of youth unemployment
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato