Artillery Row
The sloppening
The AI ideologues misunderstand what makes humans special
Save the Palace of Westminster!
The refusal of the public procurement system to behave reasonably is not an excuse to destroy Parliament
Against war with Iran
Yet another foreign misadventure would be perilous and expensive for the USA
An ode to situated exhibitions
Art is inseparable from the poetics of place
The internationalisation of child abuse
Protecting children from predators must mean thinking globally
Why are republicans still so unsuccessful?
With bad news upon bad news for the royal family, why do its political opponents remain so obscure?
All’s fair in love
Così fan tutte, English National Opera, Coliseum
How “smoke-free” went up in smoke
The campaign against vaping has been miserably counter-productive
You can’t save money without making it
We cannot be too risk averse in finance
Mind your business Britain
A struggling government turns to prohibition and regulation; a restless public may yet rediscover its taste for freedom.
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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
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear