Artillery Row
The government must stand up to India on immigration
An exemption from National Insurance contributions would be intolerable
Bridget Phillipson’s educational agenda must be opposed
The Department for Education is taking aim at standards in British schools
The cowardice of Sir Stephen Fry
Fry does not deserve credit for his belated change of course on gender issues
The short lives and violent deaths of Sweden’s rappers
Swedish rap is a window into a violent underworld
The anti-growth cabal
The standard EU charger will plug up growth and tie innovation in knots
Et tu, Labour?
The betrayal of language learning
How the fall of Assad has undermined Putin
He is struggling in Ukraine and he has now failed in Syria
Stewart Lee is wrong about comedy and censorship
Despite the awfulness of much “anti-woke” comedy, opponents of political correctness have a point
Historiography made exciting
A new book from Richard Davenport-Hines makes history interesting and enjoyable
Crenelations with friends
What playing Carcassonne taught me about my pals
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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
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party