Artillery Row
Militant humourlessness
A pseudo-history of British comedy leaves one depressed
An epochal violinist
Eugene Ysaye: Solo violin sonatas (Deutsche Grammophon)
Our informal attachments
On the importance of friendship
Let children’s stories be children’s stories
We need more respect for the childhood imagination
The idol of the age
The right should grasp the nettle of equality
Murders for the summer
A bounty of bloodshed
Keir Starmer should apologise to women
It will be hard to restore trust after years of denigration
Deeds not words
The police have to remember what they exist to do
Westminster’s bogus immigration consensus
Reliance on migrants is hurting workers and limiting innovation
Higher education: a diagnosis
We need to address the underlying causes of academic decline
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo