Artillery Row
An austere opera
Boris Godunov, Royal Opera
The accidental case against assisted dying
Rabbi Jonathan Romain undermines the argument that he is trying to make
Putting British defence on an even keel
Huzzah for the bulwarks of England
Starmer’s Gorton gamble
As Labour purges its soft left, a by-election in Greater Manchester could hand the Greens their breakthrough.
“15-minute cities” is not a policy
Our political establishment is consumed by tedious exercises in status-signalling
Mandelson’s wake
Keir Starmer claims that he did his due diligence — but he was not diligent enough
The very strange downfall of Noam Chomsky
The linguist and social commentator was perhaps the most surprising friend of Jeffrey Epstein
The Church of anti-racism
Anglicanism is replacing theology with progressive proceduralism
The crime gap
Official data says Britain is safer, but everyday encounters with disorder are eroding public confidence
This “police reform” will fix nothing
A new white paper might as well have been left as white paper
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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
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character