Artillery Row
Bezos’s sub-prime delivery
One is a billionaire with visions of conquering space — the other is Hugo Drax
What does it mean to be a woman?
Trans activists purporting to be women in the “wrong” body are incapable of understanding our day-to-day lives
Happily devoid of consequences
The Beano magazine retains its quality but not all its character over the decades
Better men in prison than women in morgues
The feminist fix: Violent men — not alcohol, unemployment, COVID or stress — kill women
Licence to Chill
Boris’s Bond bombshell fails to detonate
Repent! Repent!
Accusations of heresy should not be cloaked by pretence of legitimate complaint
The rise and fall of the China Question
Balance China realistically: let her overstretch and bleed
Happily ever EFTA?
This genuine trade bloc is a chance for Britain to show international leadership
Where’s the future?
Rishi Sunak’s budget is taking us back to the 1970s, but with none of the fun
The handmaid’s fail
Margaret Atwood trashes her legacy
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Europe invaded
We must heed the warnings from Hungary and Poland about migration
Whistler in black and white
A video artwork that aims to critique Rex Whistler’s controversial mural in Tate Britain lacks context and nuance
Religious freedom is being ignored this election
The global persecution of Christians and other religious minorities will be a defining issue for the next government, but it is barely being discussed
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Lawless and disordered
British police and courts increasingly struggle to maintain public order
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard
Crossroads of history
Cyprus is an island of contradictions, and the more we learn about it, the more paradoxical it becomes
Ringo Starr
The man cruelly mocked as “not even the best drummer in The Beatles” must be the most underrated musician of all time
Thriller vs filler
The album is back and music is better for it
