Artillery Row
The (bearable) weight of being
If art can help the mind, we must focus on the art
Diabolically good
Sergei Prokofiev: 2nd violin concerto &c (Warner Classics)
The decline of Durham
The collegiate system is an essential virtue of Durham University and should not be abandoned
Trump goes to war
The world is facing danger and mystery as America and Israel go to war with Iran
Reform can’t make Britain Christian again
Modern secularisation lies deeper than politics
All in the family?
The right is in danger of missing the point about the changing nature of British democracy
Gorton and Denton: the view from the left
Labour have handed the Greens a victory that now threatens to unpick Keir Starmer’s leadership
Welcome to the new politics
The Greens might have succeeded in Gorton and Denton but their strategy is unsustainable
What Gorton and Denton means for the right
The election has grim implications — but there is no cause for despair
Valdo Calocane should not have been free to kill
British institutions failed his victims time and again
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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
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
Awards ceremonies are erasing women
Biological males should not receive awards intended for women
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer