Artillery Row
Feminists, F1 rivalries and couples therapy
The Critic Narrated: Episode Five, with David Starkey, Boris Starling and Claudia Savage-Gore
What’s told is news again
Not much has changed since Philip Gibbs’ forgotten classic lifted the lid on early 20th century Fleet Street
What’s ugly, basic and has no walls?
The ExploreStation initiative has produced a nowhere-design which serves nobody
Barricading the bully pulpit
The Online Harms Bill promises safety for children but protects the very elites who corrupt and harm the young
John Saumarez Smith: a bibliophile and a gentleman
The Heywood Hill bookseller has died
Stonewall finally accept debate
Middle Temple made history with its LGBTQ+ forum
The Napoleonic Wars
Professor Jeremy Black discusses why and how Europe was engulfed in wars with France between 1792 and 1815
A better way for Britain
Global Britain loses out on the possible benefits of Brexit: the creation of a cooperative, triangulated, Regional Britain
No friend indeed
The feminist fix: how to expose mansplainers like Billy Bragg who only pretend to be feminist allies
Mish-firing on all cylinders
Boris seeks adulation from an emptying theatre
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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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?