Artillery Row
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Most Read
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state