Artillery Row
Living rent-free
A spectre is haunting the Labour Party
Case closed
The Makropulos Case, Royal Opera
Dispatches from the frontlines of the culture wars
Let’s make irrational and censorious “inclusivity” guidance history
How immigration is shaking Spanish politics
Conflict over the national question threatens to derail a supposed European success story
The Irish establishment pretend the Right doesn’t exist
Conservative candidates couldn’t even get their names on the ballot
Almost too poignant to bear
Franz Schubert: 4-hand piano music (Erato)
Have we got alcoholism wrong?
A new book contends that our approach to alcohol addiction can be irrational and unhelpful
A transcendent life
James Stevens Curl’s 2018 demolition of the Modernist experiment signalled the return to high culture
The problem with Ed Davey
Davey, Davey, give us better answers do
How to fix Holyrood
Holyrood is broken — but not beyond repair
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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
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect