Artillery Row
The myth of academic meritocracy
An awful lot of talent and experience is about to be wasted
Return from Planet Gender
New guidance for schools on gender questioning children is a good start
Do women-only sports categories matter if you’re rubbish?
You don’t have to excel at something for it to be important to your identity
Disagreeable liaisons
Innocent debutant Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is just trying to quietly govern the country, but people keep asking him annoying questions
Give up already, Eddie
Eddie Izzard’s unconvincing political career is going nowhere
Executing the wills
The destruction of Britain’s probate records archive must be averted
J G A Pocock: the Antipodean’s view of Europe
John Pocock defended Britain in its broadest sense
The devil in the dating apps
Modern technology does not encourage long-term relationships but a spiral of swiping
The decline of beauty
Why has the concept been rejected by the art world?
The issue with the Big Issue
The transformation of Big Issue vendors and the war against noticing
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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
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade