Artillery Row
Sadistic austerity
All that seems to unite us is miserliness
Get ready for opposition
The bright side of a Tory loss
The secret diary of Adrian Chiles (aged 55 11/12ths)
A glimpse of genius at work
Britain’s blasphemy laws
We must stand up to intimidation
Virtual insanity
Has online shopping gone too far?
Britons on the moon
Remembering a lost dream
Beethoven’s piano maker
Album of the Week: Nannette Streicher’s Fortepiano (Gramola)
Of profits and progress
Don’t blame oil companies for obstacles on the path to clean energy
Why so unserious?
Against the cult of relatability
A tragedy of manners
Is the US endangering its status in Europe?
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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
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?