Artillery Row
The view from Zhongnanhai
What Mark Carney saw in Beijing was the inevitability of global communism. Let us pray he is wrong…
Why “The Myth of Mars and Venus” still matters
Deborah Cameron debunked pervasive stereotypes about sex differences
Peter Mandelson must go
His conduct has been shockingly disgraceful
The war of inclusivity against distinctiveness
Is the British countryside too British?
The (too) many deaths of Saint Sebastian
Ming Wong lacks the power and sensuality of his supposed inspirations
Trading blows
EU trade policy faces mixed signals from parliament and new agreements.
A clinical note on Trump Derangement Syndrome
Advice on how to avoid and manage the condition
The asylum crisis is undermining local services
Local councils are struggling to bear the strain of a broken asylum system
Yes, Starmer’s Chagos plan violates the 1966 US-UK Agreement
Like it or not, the 1966 US-UK Agreement is an obstacle for the UK-Mauritius Agreement
The passion of the Monkey Christ
The ubiquitous mockery of a botched restoration offered a revealing insight into modern cultural decline
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough