Artillery Row
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
A leadership bid you can’t refuse
Kemi Badenoch goes on a charm offensive
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
