Artillery Row
Charitably correct
Appointing Orlando Fraser would challenge the establishment’s grip on the quangocracy
Hands On or Hands Off?
Fracking – a whole new Tory faultline
Ruff day at the NEC
Crufts is less about the dogs than it is their human owners
What do the BAFTAs really stand for?
The awards used to be entertainingly eccentric
Where is the United Nations?
The world has lost its only credible arena for peace
Michael Gove — refugee traffic controller
In a crisis a great politician shall arise
The cost of war
The EU and UK Government must act to protect Ukraine’s women and children
Is the Ukraine conflict about me?
A narcissistic generation reacts to the shadow of war
Rage against the machine
Schools should be a safe space away from the ghoulish blue light
Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber works (BIS)
The British composer — still writing at 87 years of age — is an acquired taste
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting