Artillery Row
Starmer’s countdown begins
With authority drained, discipline gone and rivals circling, the Prime Minister’s survival is now a matter of timing
The Conservative New Coke problem
It’s hard to shake things up with marketing when the recipe is public and unchanged
In defence of Trumpism
He has played an essential role in shattering left-wing taboos
Et tu, Anas?
McSweeney is out — and so are the knives
Neither good nor serious
Against the Lost Cause Myth of Starmerism
Who gets to be British?
Jeevun Sandher’s attempt to declare Matt Goodwin “not very British” reveals a shallow, ahistorical and politically convenient vision of the nation
Pedro Sánchez is not the saviour of the left
The Spanish prime minister has built a model based on maintaining a minority government at any cost
Call for the King
Why the Restoration and Renewal Programme is mad, bad, dangerous for Parliament and must be stopped
The genre that came in from the cold
Why we love spy fiction
A cherishable dream
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (Hyperion)
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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
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich