Artillery Row
Will the Reform revolution devour its own children?
Nigel Farage needs a plan for managing the extremes of the online right
The twilight of genius
Dmitri Shostakovich: The last 3 quartets (Harmonia Mundi)
An ego trip to the movies
Melania is a fascinatingly terrible film
Power with responsibility
Britain has built a governing system in which officials exercise immense power yet face no consequences. Could that be about to change?
Power and foreign policy after World War Two
How Britain lost its great power status
The limits of Laila Cunningham
Reform’s new stars must prove that they can think deeply and not just indulge in anti-woke posturing
The Iranian regime should fall
We should support brave dissidents against theocratic tyranny
Donald Trump is endangering US alliances
The US should wind down its commitments in Europe without making enemies
Lawfare versus warfare
Soldiers have been collateral damage in a cold-blooded political campaign
Disengaging from the stakeholders
Prohibitionists seem not to like active citizens who disagree with them
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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)
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low