Artillery Row
How the budget could backfire
Delivering a successful budget might have become politically impossible
Fundamentally ahistorical
History is not just a data set for the present
Does it really cost women nothing to use incorrect pronouns?
There is nothing kind about demanding that people misrepresent the truth
Death by anecdote
Supporters of assisted suicide should stop depending on emotive anecdotes
Reform should ignore the drums of war
The appointment of Alan Mendoza is a bad sign for Reform’s foreign policy
Silence in the Phoenix
On the transcendent qualities of acting
A cornucopia of surprises
Anna Fedorova: Liberté (Channel Classics)
Chief Constables, arrest thyselves
Politicians are not to blame for all the problems with the police
Stop normalising porn
Banks should not be enabling a dangerous and destructive industry
Shabana Mahmood has fooled Britain’s herdlike media
She has convinced them that relaxing the rules represents tough action
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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
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem