Artillery Row
Classic humour?
Two experiments in drama and comedy offer mixed results
David Bowie was a political shapeshifter
The pop enigma veered between the far right and the right on
Bursting the Bazbubble
A familiar Ashes tale: moments of brilliance undone by muddle, bravado and a tour that will be remembered more for what might have been than what was.
Day after day
It is easy to lose sight of art amid personal narratives
Diversity contra quality
The Met’s latest scandal shows that quality is more important than identity
Do we still live in a democracy?
Elections alone don’t make a democracy. Britain’s institutions are under strain, and trust in the state is slipping
Can foreign policy survive migration?
A coherent national interest relies on a coherent nation. That can no longer be assumed.
The cant of Old Canterbury
Invoking art, history, and faith is no substitute for facing the realities of mass migration
The perpetual adolescence of the childfree
No one has to be a parent — but reasons for childlessness can still be immature
Why Appeasement seemed sensible
Hindsight is no guide to what most influenced British policymakers in the 1930s
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war