Artillery Row
The historical role of the maîtresse-en-titre
Nigel Jones looks at how the mistresses and girlfriends of rulers have exerted political power throughout history
Is egg freezing the solution to gender inequality?
Why are more and more women are opting to freeze their eggs as a form of fertility insurance policy?
Letter for Washington: Biden, meet Boris
The case for tentative optimism about transatlantic relations
Daniil Trifonov: Silver Age (DG)
This recording is an absolute must-hear, one of the summits of this difficult year
Between war and empire
Jeremy Black weighs in on two recent historiographical offerings
Dominic Cummings’s 2020 vision
Why didn’t Dom do data?
Down with the Crown
The Sussexes are just one minor factor among a number that could ultimately lead to the demise of the monarchy
The British Twitter Stasi
Police forces should not be secretly recording my tweets as ‘hate incidents’
Quiet, you’ll get yours in a minute
He’d have wanted “Dropping the Pilot”
“But is it good for the Jews?” Why Dom Cummings departure probably is
Toby Young was a huge fan of Dominic Cummings. The lockdown changed his mind
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light