Artillery Row
Beware digital sanctity
Virtue signalling online is no substitute for actual virtue
Donald Trump is a real man, too
Attacking Donald Trump on the grounds of masculinity affirms stereotypes
How Kemi can improve at PMQs
The Tory leader neither seems to enjoy, nor prepare for the weekly clash
Starmer’s authoritarian instincts
Laws have been tightened, censorship powers expanded, and speech-related prosecutions pursued
The Apprentice
What’s Europe ever done for America?
Is the government sleepwalking into a digital disaster?
The digital identities framework needs to account for individuals’ sex
It is not unpatriotic to question war
Old smears are being resurrected to silence dissent
President Zelensky is getting bad advice
Trump, for all his coldness, is talking more sense than his European allies
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
Most Read
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
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
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
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project