Artillery Row
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt