Artillery Row
Women in the West are under threat
Various cultural forces are undermining our approach to human dignity and human equality
Bob Dylan and the mystery of traditional music
In becoming Bob Dylan, Robert Zimmerman entered a mysterious, invisible world
Album of the Year
Arvo Pärt: And I heard a voice
Star-crossed Labour
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are a classic doomed couple
The liberal case for migration is morally bankrupt
Progressive rhetoric conceals contempt for manual labour
Starmerism contra democracy
Will the establishment allow Reform to succeed?
The thought police are losing power
Uncomfortable questions must be asked carefully — but they must be asked
There is another side to the “Stakeknife” story
The security forces might have made mistakes but their work was still invaluable
The NHS is failing mothers
Bad treatment and bad advice is endangering mothers and discouraging would-be parents
Prepare for life without America
Trump’s National Security Strategy has put Europe on notice
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion