Artillery Row
Failing universities
What has gone wrong in British higher education?
The new Scotland
Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
Jane Austen versus virtue signalling
What Mansfield Park can tell us about contemporary politics
Murders for May
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
How Singapore gets things done
Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance
Trouble beneath the surface
Labour’s triumph obscures worrying signs of division and chaos brewing in British society
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
Dune and progressive media illiteracy
Leftist moralism obscures thematic depth in its frantic rush to judge
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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
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat