Artillery Row
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
Power, money and the English city
The development of English urbanisation
This isn’t about me
Who? Me? A future Conservative Party leader? Well, if you say so…
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
Labour won’t survive unless it boosts living standards
People need hope that things can eventually get better
Sport, strength and pseudo-feminism
We should expose the emptiness of femininity compared to femaleness
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
The scourge of EDI
It is patronising, divisive and anti-meritocratic
Murders for July
The most gripping and grisly detective novels of the month, from Devon to Orkney
Ukraine’s dangerous friends
The embattled nation must resist the siren song of possible NATO membership
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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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue