Artillery Row
On bores and wars
Even Keir Starmer cannot make Trump’s insanity sound tedious
Show me what love is
Don Giovanni, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Can Europe stand up to Trump?
Trump’s strongman tactics have been enabled by European weakness
Reclaiming private education for the masses
Advocates for freedom in school choice should not rely on sob stories, but on a principled defence of markets and the profit motive
A short-form solution
Labour’s answer to illegal migration borrows the aesthetics of successful enforcement without the substance that made it work
The rise and fall of assimilation
On last century’s chimera of a universal civilisation
In praise of the middlebrow
Sometimes, a television show really does deserve the hype
Erich von Däniken and the modern paranoid style
His archeological esoterica fuelled the development of modern conspiracy theory
Schubert à la mould
Prize-winning pianism curdles into self-regard
The unknown cost of Net Zero
Net Zero was signed into law with barely a debate and no clear price tag. New analysis shows the true costs are wildly uncertain
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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)
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)