Artillery Row
Westminster is running out of time
Exhausted voters aren’t angry so much as resigned to a country that no longer works
In defence of Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Far more energy has gone into condemning his phrasing than confronting the questions he raised
Change is afoot in the Falkland Islands
Falkland Islanders are showing that their future is theirs alone to decide
Hamlet is not about resistance
Why Riz Ahmed’s reading gets the play wrong
Who has the right to speak in universities?
Invitations should not be rescinded — but no one has the right to an invitation
The lost soul of Hungarian music
Leo Weiner: Violin concerto (Naxos)
Why Essex is Britain’s most right-wing county
Essex is both traditionalist and highly entrepreneurial
The sloppening
The AI ideologues misunderstand what makes humans special
Save the Palace of Westminster!
The refusal of the public procurement system to behave reasonably is not an excuse to destroy Parliament
Against war with Iran
Yet another foreign misadventure would be perilous and expensive for the USA
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport