Artillery Row
Spellcheckers go woke
Countryside is racist, McDonalds transvestites, taking the knee rebels and Nazis can’t be attractive
Looking back at Medusa
Myths are more malleable than statues
The left-wing bias of Wikipedia
Is Wikipedia’s neutral point of view truly dead?
The woke book of Brexit
Save yourself from ‘Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire’ by Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson
Is the Women’s Equality Party really for women?
The WEP has been neutered by the same sexist stereotypes it claims to fight against
Should all England be a Greater Manchester?
Neither Starmer nor Johnson know if local lockdowns are any more effective than national lockdowns. But both have dug-in to their positions.
Letting the blob go online
Why is the “Vote Leave Government” giving a Quango so much power over our online speech?
The world leaders who battled coronavirus and won
How is it that our most eccentric world leaders have been the ones disproportionately affected by Covid-19?
A timely warning from history
Are Churchill’s and Orwell’s warnings about to come to pass?
Arise Sir Ed, saviour of King’s College London
An online ‘clap for Sir Ed’ will no doubt be forthcoming for an award justly earned
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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
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false