Artillery Row
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
The Conservatives must repent and rebuild
The Tories have to put themselves in a position to exploit Labour weakness
The final death of left v. right?
Old political categories are losing their value
Embracing the quiet life
Keir Starmer takes a vow of public service and perpetual dogmatic silence
Post election rundown
Three very sleepy men discuss the election result
The schadenfreude election
The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate
That was the night that was
A new dawn has broken, even if the sky is grey
The great Conservative farewell
The Conservatives’ terrible result could become terminal
The triumph of electoral sectarianism
Votes on the basis of ethnic identity are reshaping British politics
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
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.
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet