Artillery Row
Letter from Washington: The perils of Flight 93 democracy
When politics is all-out war, everyone’s a loser
Frustrate their knavish tricks?
Is foreign interference in British politics any different now than in the past?
The politicisation of the police
British police officers are enforcing Stonewall’s wishlist
Is artistic nepotism an evil – or a necessity?
Nepotism in the arts is very much alive and here to stay
Fair Cop?
How Stonewall turned the police into political activists
Counting the dead
How the UK failed at the logistics of death when it mattered most
The Dystopian Age of the Mask
How Ernst Jünger predicted the ubiquity of masks
Psychosis in an age of surveillance capitalism
Can an app help treat mental health issues?
Boris beware: Nigel’s making plans for you
Farage will soon return from his political grave to ensure Brexit gets done
Two men and a Boris
Three is the magic number. Or six. We don’t know what the magic number is
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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)
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ