Artillery Row
The watchdog that doesn’t bark
If the Office for Budget Responsibility cannot prevent catastrophe, what purpose does it serve?
Into the Boomerverse
Older commentators cannot understand how younger people experience the UK
We must think seriously about nuclear deterrence
Britain has to update its nuclear arsenal and its nuclear thinking
Politics on cheat mode
Westminster’s politics are switched to easy settings while Farage thrives on cheat mode
Hands off Greenland
Threatening military intervention is immoral and silly
Britain needs a new architecture of government
We cannot expect departments to pursue an excess of different objectives
Fat heads and junk politics
A ban on “junk food” commercials is an ominous case of public health overreach
Keep Shamima Begum out
She has done terrible things and she has been treated justly
On British journalists and court eunuchs
Why we learn so miserably little from the British press
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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
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do