Artillery Row
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
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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
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
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
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?