Artillery Row
Panto in parliament
Michael Gove takes us on a regional tour
In harm’s way
What counts as serious harm in cases of libel?
Born in the wrong body
Scientific advancements in uterine transplantation don’t represent progress
The salvation of crime fiction
In praise of delectably dark escapism
Keep physical books
We have to protect cultural history
Instruments of shock and awe
Jean Sibelius/Arne Nordheim; The Tempest (Naxos/LAWO)
The human subject
Tár is a film of moving ambiguities
Tanks for the memories
The British Army’s main battle tank is back in action
Is Sturgeon’s exit good or bad for the UK?
Unionists shouldn’t celebrate prematurely
London’s arteries
Man Made Wonders: How the electricity gets to your phone
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
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms