Artillery Row
Politicians are football’s fair-weather friends
In general, they seem to love the game only when it is politically convenient
The rising threat of digital exclusion
Old and vulnerable people are at risk of dangerous marginalisation
How comfortable is wafer thin?
… and how cunning is the Treasury?
Nuzzi, Lizza, RFK and the death of journalism
What is the point of writing without readable prose?
Relationship status: it’s complicated
Partenope, English National Opera, Coliseum
Why Slovenia rejected assisted suicide
Voters learned about the grim realities of assisted dying in practice
Immigration policy needs a reality check
On average, migrants from different backgrounds have different outcomes
In defence of the Town and Country Planning Act
The essentially valuable function of the planning system has been subverted by its inheritors
Government in a nutshell?
The mystery of Keir Starmer’s vision is still a tough nut to crack
Your Party is a far left farce
Radical socialists are a compelling argument against their own ideas
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The Book of JO’B
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
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?