Artillery Row
Risky business
When it comes to booking a holiday abroad, we need to protect our right to take risks and make our own decisions
Rules of enragement
At its best Conflicted reminds us of the central importance of meaningful debate
Peteris Vasks: Musica serena (BR Klassik)
Vasks writes long, slow, contemplative works with a strong feeling for lakes, forests and landscape
Boris is getting off the BLM train
One country seems to have embraced the group’s ideology and world view; The other rejected it fully
Flying fiends
The wasp may be hated, but you’d be amazed by its intelligence
The death of western cosmopolitanism
A global pandemic has shown how beneficial it is to have a strong nation state
Our Man about Town
On the merits of celebrity authors and literary book prizes
Today in making Matt Hancock look good
Meanwhile in the Caino Chief of Staff timeline …
Post-Colonial
When will we get serious about cyberwarfare?
Journey around the travel scribes
Why is travel writing so unfashionable and even regarded by some as simply “wrong”?
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake