Artillery Row
How to lose a culture war
Or a fast march through the institutions
Development hell
The war in Ukraine has ground to a stalemate
“No thinking, please, we’re British!”
Our politics needs more strategic intelligence
Just do the bloody show
Rusalka, Royal Opera House
Unveiled enigmas
Shostakovich: Works unveiled (BIS)
Castaneda the sorcerer
Hoaxer, fraud … prophet?
The plot against Boris
Johnson is simply trying to confuse matters
Unpeeling The Onion
How politics kills humour
Complexity on canvas
Women abstract artists step out of the shadows
No city for young women
Khan’s policies are endangering Londoners
Most Read
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
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree