Artillery Row
Labour is trapped in a statist doom-loop
Keir Starmer has a quasi-religious belief in government power
The China panic and the Indian fact
The debate over the Chagos Islands has been clouded by fantasy about Beijing, obscuring the far more consequential role of New Delhi
Polish lessons for the British right
Radical ideologues might not win but they can undermine winners
The economy that forgot how to learn
Capitalism has not been too cruel — we have tried to make it too kind
Is Britain ungovernable?
Our lack of a shared political identity makes it impossible to govern for everyone
Intriguing flaws
Man and Boy, Dorfman Theatre
Alkan the Awesome
Alkan: Complete organ works, vol. 1 (Signum Classics)
How will AI shape criticism?
Like it or loathe it, generative AI is influencing how we write and edit
Everyone wants to live in the 90s
We have to get serious about rebuilding British culture
Britain should accept the American bear hug
Despite everything, the special relationship truly is special
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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
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans