Artillery Row
Tough on smoking, tough on alternatives to smoking
We should give smokers healthier options, not no options
Small boats and big problems
The asylum issue is not going away, and Keir Starmer must face it soon
Twitter’s doxxing problem
Social media “outings” expose serious lapses in legality and digital morality
Do feminists speak for all women?
To speak on behalf of women is not to speak for or over them
Mission: Possible
Captain Boring is here to moderately improve the nation
Yachts wrong with the world
Donald Trump, whiteness, superyachts and other evils
In defence of hereditary peers
We should preserve Britain’s magical eccentricity
The Conservatives must learn from their failures
Our failure was predictable and must not be repeated
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
The BBC can be a drag
The priorities of its reporting, especially on gender issues, can be absurd
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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
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture