Artillery Row
Napoleon’s shifting reputation
Professor Jeremy Black speaks to Graham Stewart about Napoleon’s reputation
Freedom to expose
Do historians and biographers have a moral right to be shown classified documents?
You can’t handle the chaos
Gove? Mitchell Gove? Sorry, Michael? No, never heard of him, why?
The un-cancelled
It seems cancel culture is starting to lose its power
Letter from Budapest
Tibor Fischer discovers the first of many Roger Scruton cafés
No No Nadhim
With a Johnson lockdown easing, terms & conditions apply
Be more Disraeli
Labour need to drop the Gladstonian hectoring if they want to win
The cloak of woke
Are “progressive” leaders just canny politicians?
The Dom Identity
What happens if an imaginary grenade doesn’t explode?
Lies, damn lies
Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand
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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
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces