Artillery Row
Hans Werner Henze: Night pieces and arias (Naxos)
Why are so many in the dark about Germany’s leading musical light?
What a piece of work is man
Anna Della Subin’s new book explores how leaders become Gods
The cult of the father
A memoir of a family pulled apart by the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Sink Michael Gove’s Irish Sea border
The NIP is destroying the Belfast Agreement before it’s even fully implemented
Johnson’s better angel takes flight
Munira Mirza was the Prime Minister’s indispensable foil
When is a bot not a bot?
Answer: when it’s a feminist
The wealth of having enough
In an age of consumption, contentment is a crime
Much ado about mothers
Mumsnet has been airing the trans lobby’s dirty laundry
Blackwell’s: an undesirable new chapter?
The sale of the bookshop is not a good omen for the book industry
Julie Bindel in conversation with Raquel Rosario Sanchez
Did the University of Bristol enable Rosario Sanchez’s bullying and harassment?
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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
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation