Artillery Row
Revolutionaries in the palace
Austria-Hungary’s last empress is inducted into the cult of Diana and Meghan
The game of laughter
A backstage look at stand-up comedy
Carry On Tories
Rishi Sunak could not escape Matt Hancock’s steamy grasp
The return to Kharkiv
As refugees come home, they have found their city changed forever
Kiwi shoe polish and civilisation
To dress respectably is to dress respectfully
Sex, New Scientist and me
How I learned to stop worrying and criticise the magazine
The Parthenon is special, but not unique
If we must return the Elgin marbles, why not any other artefact?
Letting the mask slip
An unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat used “nudging” to influence national policy
A pantomime of womanhood
Women’s pain is not a novelty to be impersonated
Dead policy sketch
Reports of Channel 4’s privatisation have been greatly exaggerated
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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
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history