Artillery Row
Every crime is a crime
We must distinguish between stories and their misuse
Enjoyable destruction
Godzilla Minus One may not be especially profound but it is great fun
I bless the flights down to Africa
It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from U(K)
How the war in Gaza has emboldened Vladimir Putin
Ukraine is struggling and the West is distracted
The price of porn
Is pornography hacking our sexual desires?
The second life of Pauline Boty
Critics should not drown this much-needed revival in emotive clichés
Total lack of recall
Taking a walk down memory wilderness with Rishi Sunak
Britain’s arbitrary authoritarianism
Recent prosecutions over speech should concern us all
Art does not exist to improve society
We should resist the cultural reductionism of the modern “creative industries”
The unmaking of the Athenaeum
The venerable club is being spoiled by ideology
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders