Artillery Row
The day after
Mourning that befits her memory
Franz Schubert: String quintet/Quartettsatz (Chandos)
Intimations of life’s fragility
Sharp dressed man
Nick Cave sounds as good as ever
The shows should go on
Would the Queen want us to cancel events?
Are the Left the REAL racistz?
Right-wingers adopting identity politics are doing the bidding of the left
How I used to love and now hate the London Review of Books
Speaking words of wisdom, LRB
“Thank you, ma’am, for everything”
On the death of Queen Elizabeth II
In the shadow of the crown
The inefficient paid tribute to the dignified
John Nash is overrated
Against neat-freak planning
France and the Queen
A sense of what was lost
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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
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working