Artillery Row
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
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
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies