Artillery Row
Labour’s crime plans need more work
Limp idealism has been mixed up with solutions
Murders for the New Year
A dark start to 2023
New Year’s writing resolutions
What I will try to improve in 2023
The raw truth about legal crowdfunding
Don’t waste money on censorious causes with no legal case
Jiving in the ruins
This dazzling album features young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin
Creativity and chaos
Writers with biographies to match their books
The Zelensky dilemma
Rhetoric will not end the war
Oil, art and the perils of patronage
Art patrons have always been on the wrong side of history
A School of Place?
Wrong answers to good questions on urban design
In praise of pomp and pageantry
We must not have a stripped-down coronation
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)