Artillery Row
Against the neo-prohibitionists
Drug users have agency — let them choose for themselves
Things have only got wetter
What have the Conservatives achieved?
Children and gender distress
Modish answers may not be the best
Risk your neck, save your soul
Against the sterility of safetyism
A Vilnius descent
Progress only goes so far
Schumann/Mahler: Symphonies 1&2 (Naxos)
Schumann cannot be ignored
We are not so far from the Victorians
There is no cause for despair
Badgers complaining about foxes eating chickens
Some of the government’s critics need more introspection
Murders for October
A cornucopia of killings
Mobilisation
Christ, humanity and war
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
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