Artillery Row
Love in Barbie Land
Barbie offers a healthy perspective on the relationship between the sexes
A nation of motorists
Metropolitan journalists do not appreciate how the nation travels
Should towns live forever?
Sometimes a place should be allowed to decline
Sadiq Khan’s hot air on housing
The London Plan is bad for the capital
Trust and the TERF wars
Why should feminists trust anyone again?
No debanking double standards
Claims of hypocrisy are evasive and wrong
Ned zero
Ed Miliband’s net zero plan makes no sense
Militant humourlessness
A pseudo-history of British comedy leaves one depressed
An epochal violinist
Eugene Ysaye: Solo violin sonatas (Deutsche Grammophon)
Our informal attachments
On the importance of friendship
The dismal state of British defence
The UK’s defence strategy is a combination of hope and vibes
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
