Artillery Row
The EU is coming for “hate speech”
The European Commission is considering including “hate speech” in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes
The rise of electoral sectarianism
Multiculturalism is reshaping British political life
What future for Winchester Cathedral Choir?
The choral tradition in the cathedral must be enlivened rather than diluted
Strawberry fields? Never
The idea of toughening zoomers up with hard labour is a pointless fantasy
Starmer’s next step
The Labour leader has the chance to win trust as well as votes this election
Gender and Josef K.
How it feels to be accused of crimes that don’t exist
The Conservative immigration betrayal
The Tories have delivered immigration on an absolutely unprecedented scale
Labour are playing with fire on abortion
There is no case for decriminalising late-term abortion
Desperate policies for desperate people
That Conservative policy platform in full
Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
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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
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
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
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties