Artillery Row
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
We need a pro-natal culture
Changing our demographic future will require a new attitude towards having children
How to save a church
Social media stunts, however well intentioned, will not rescue our churches
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Standout singers
If Music (Erato), Day of These Days (Delphian) & Eisnacht (Genuin)
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards