Artillery Row
A camp icon
The paradoxes of Trump’s truth-telling
Putin, Shute and nukes
How much should we fear nuclear war?
The making of a multi-national state
What the Scots and Irish brought to Westminster
Every British politics podcast
Big brains and banter
“Misgendering” is not a crime
Still less is it terrorism
The dark side of fantasy
If you are outraged by Andrew Tate, why aren’t you outraged by online porn?
In praise of friendship
Love for friends becomes love for the world
The tangled web of sex
No, sex is not “bimodal”
Back to the future
Retro retorts and refugee rhetoric as Sunak invokes the ghost of 80s Starmer
The culture wars drag on
In which your correspondent visits a drag show in a church
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers