Artillery Row
The left is intellectually exhausted
Ironically, so-called progressives have absolutely failed to move with the times
From digital freedom to the virtual panopticon
The generation that grew up online is watching the web close in
Does women’s discomfort matter?
Male desires are not more important than women’s comfort
On bores and wars
Even Keir Starmer cannot make Trump’s insanity sound tedious
Show me what love is
Don Giovanni, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Can Europe stand up to Trump?
Trump’s strongman tactics have been enabled by European weakness
Reclaiming private education for the masses
Advocates for freedom in school choice should not rely on sob stories, but on a principled defence of markets and the profit motive
A short-form solution
Labour’s answer to illegal migration borrows the aesthetics of successful enforcement without the substance that made it work
The rise and fall of assimilation
On last century’s chimera of a universal civilisation
In praise of the middlebrow
Sometimes, a television show really does deserve the hype
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
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 rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation