Artillery Row
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
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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
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
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall