Artillery Row
The sectarian state
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the Balkanisation of Britain
The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
The great betrayal
MAGA will always be Trump’s, but how much is an ever-shrinking coalition actually worth?
It’s time to scrap SLAPPs
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation are stifling debate in Britain
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
Murders for March
Stirring dull roots with spring blood
Italian elegance
Italian Perspectives (Pentatone)
Return to SENDer
Labour has created a real chance to reform SEND, writes Zachary Marsh — but will it take it?
Has Donald Trump saved Pedro Sánchez’s career?
Criticism from the widely unpopular American president is a political boon for the Spanish prime minister
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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
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
How to reverse Britain’s nuclear decline
Regulatory reform alone is not enough — we need better governance
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions