Artillery Row
Jeremy Clarkson is yesterday’s sexist
It’s too easy to focus on the Top Gear host
Two cheers for YIMBYs
More housing is needed — but there are costs as well
What to do about Evil
How was Damien Bendall free to kill?
Sturgeon turns her back on women
Women will not forgive her but we will fight on
The authoritarianism stalking Ireland
A secular clerisy is silencing dissent
A failed Oscar Wilde
The rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos
Candles in the cold
Hopeful thoughts in dark times
Venal vintages
The murky world of wine collecting
What church for what England?
The difficult future of the C of E
The missing dimension
Warning: contains passages of symphonic transcendence
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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
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic