Artillery Row
The need for nuclear
The best time to build a new nuclear plant was ten years ago. The second best time is now
Financial strain in the EU
Commission’s absurd budget proposal raises eyebrows
The banality of Barbie
Glossy social commentary does not reflect the facts
Excessive expectations
On writers and mental health
Not letting the Games begin
Progressive hubris spoils a chance for Australian success
A floundering academic culture
UCU’s marking boycott is a lesson in hypocrisy
Retiree rebels
Protest can be a pursuit of the old more than the young
The state of maaate
All hail Sadiq Khan’s campaign against embarrassing sexists
The beauty and the bomb
Barbenheimer is a true cinematic event
Luxury politics and the narcissistic left
Commodification with a woke twist
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
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground