Artillery Row
“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
COVID Estrangement Syndrome
How to deal with creeping authoritarianism
The emptiness of International Women’s Day
Against glass-ceiling feminism
In Sunak’s house are many rooms
But it might be a tight squeeze
Unsung heroes
Those who stand outside abortion clinics offer help as well as prayers, but buffer zones cut off that lifeline
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark