Artillery Row
The Yookay against reality
Cousin marriage, cultural appeasement and wilful blindness
The mistakes of Manchesterism
Andy Burnham is being unrealistic about growth
Mood swings in Marrakesh
Triumph and anger are both likely to erupt on the streets of Morocco
Ice, cold in the North Atlantic
The Speaker explodes, Badenoch discovers self-determination and Trump can’t remember which island he wants.
The real scrutiny of assisted dying is only just beginning
Its advocates cannot be allowed to act as if the Leadbeater Bill is a done deal
Must we cancel Plato?
Right-wing cancel culture might be marginal but it is unfortunate nonetheless
War without arms
Labour’s welfare obsession is costing the UK hard military power
The problem with Badenochism
The Conservative leader fundamentally misunderstands the problems with the social order
Calm waters
Mike Johnson’s spinelessness was as surreal as it was disingenuous
Of course ECHR withdrawal would not make the UK like Russia
There are serious arguments against leaving the ECHR but this is not one of them
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
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
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?