Artillery Row
Is there a cultural Iron Curtain emerging in Europe?
Central and eastern European states want a better standard of living, but not at the cost of their sovereignty
Perhaps Black Lives Matter was right about the nuclear family
James Jeffrey explains why he won’t be signing up for a BLM-mandated commune anytime soon
The dehumanising danger of social media
Josephine Bartosch says that far from facilitating an enriching meeting of minds, the online world is producing a dystopian world that is breaking us apart
The career of David Fincher – not so black and white?
David Fincher’s eleventh film is his most personal and revealing yet
The Gove Accords
What is the significance of Michael Gove’s Brexit agreement?
The universal appeal of self-pity
Zeinab Badawi’s ‘The History of Africa’ (BBC World News)
Why asylum abuse will get worse after Brexit
The government is blaming international rules while under-investing in national alternatives
John Lennon: the first and last global icon
Forty years on from the death of John Lennon, Dominic Green recounts the tormented life of the last universal Western icon
Spare the rod
Spoiled beaks and free thought at Eton
All the news fit to post
Are Freedom of Information requests really being politically policed by the Cabinet Office?
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Moving in mysterious ways
Normally, a warning comes with some kind of threat
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Trojan horse separatism
Spanish unity is being bartered away in a game of political greed as a Catalan coup-leader is allowed to stroll back into the country
“Social justice” is damaging education
Teaching is in danger of degenerating into indoctrination
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
