Artillery Row
Getting creative with history
The promise of John-Paul Stonard’s Creation is poisoned by a revisionist agenda
The Polish Volin, Vol. 2 (Chandos)
The atmosphere is so thick you’d need a charcuterie knife to cut it
Cross wires
For Britain it’s sovereignty, for the EU it’s a niggle around sausages
Where in the world
In the post-pandemic world, travel is all in the mind
Freelancers cannot afford shame
Journalist and actor Denis Tuohy has written a rewarding collection worthy of his colourful career
Remembering Sir David Amess
Well loved by Commons staff and MPs alike
Female strength on film
Is Sir Ridley Scott a surprising feminist?
Where LGB fear to tread
Stonewall programmes stifle the very people they pretend to protect
Not built to last
Ugly buildings are an environmental catastrophe
Speaking truth to power?
Why did Jess Philips revoke her support for a gender critical article?
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
