Artillery Row
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
