Artillery Row
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead