Artillery Row
The asylum crisis is undermining local services
Local councils are struggling to bear the strain of a broken asylum system
Yes, Starmer’s Chagos plan violates the 1966 US-UK Agreement
Like it or not, the 1966 US-UK Agreement is an obstacle for the UK-Mauritius Agreement
The passion of the Monkey Christ
The ubiquitous mockery of a botched restoration offered a revealing insight into modern cultural decline
Will the Reform revolution devour its own children?
Nigel Farage needs a plan for managing the extremes of the online right
The twilight of genius
Dmitri Shostakovich: The last 3 quartets (Harmonia Mundi)
An ego trip to the movies
Melania is a fascinatingly terrible film
Power with responsibility
Britain has built a governing system in which officials exercise immense power yet face no consequences. Could that be about to change?
Power and foreign policy after World War Two
How Britain lost its great power status
The limits of Laila Cunningham
Reform’s new stars must prove that they can think deeply and not just indulge in anti-woke posturing
The Iranian regime should fall
We should support brave dissidents against theocratic tyranny
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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
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant