Artillery Row
The unkindest cut
Why can’t film directors let their work go?
What can blood and stool tell us about the spread of Covid-19?
New scientific studies have captured a different, broader picture – not a selection of details in high-resolution that grab headlines
Parliament is preparing to meet next week to vote on EU trade deal
The announcement may come on Thursday – regardless of whether a deal is concluded by that day
John le Carré: a man who rose through the English class system as it was collapsing
John le Carré’s voice of old-fashioned English authority was one acquired through merit and bearing rather than birth
Should the Virgin Mary have had an abortion?
Given modern society’s strident pro-abortion stance and irreligious view of Christmas, it’s a wonder this question hasn’t already been raised
What makes a Penguin Classic?
Alexander Larman talks to the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics, Henry Eliot about what makes a ‘modern classic’
You better watch out, you better not cry
You better not pout, I’m telling you why
Scottish women’s rights virtue-signalled away
An organisation founded to support victims of male sexual violence are apparently prioritising the feelings of men
The religion of human rights
The reaction to the government’s Independent Human Rights Act Review suggests we are in distinct danger of succumbing to a destructively progressive cult
Alfred Sherman: the original Downing Street maverick
The rise and fall of Dominic Cummings recalls the role of another eccentric who changed British politics
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Keir-y-e-Liason
Rob tries to stay awake at the Liazzzzzzon committee
The word at war
Diplomacy’s charm was the talking, not the fighting
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
