Artillery Row
We need to talk about nuclear regulation
The fate of Fingleton is more important than the budget
The decline of investigative journalism
Democracy for Sale may have found the only MPs actually doing their jobs
Let them wipe bums
Zack Polanski does not care enough
Space lasers over Kangerlussuaq
The Arctic territory is the frontline of a new hybrid war in communications
Emotional restraint
Josef Bohuslav Foerster: 2nd symphony; Cyrano de Bergerac (Naxos)
The end of liberal hegemony
Europe must decide if it can become a serious actor on the world stage
A man adrift
Flesh, by David Szalay, is not radically masculine but quietly humanist
Provocation on a flagpole
The nationalists in charge of Belfast don’t feel constrained by the qualms of unionists or Jews
Why the Budget was bad news for Gibraltar
The government is still neglecting the needs of British Overseas Territories
We need better Christians and better democracy
Religion need not improve our politics but it can
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James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
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From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then