Artillery Row
More Skullions, fewer Lady Marys
Why are university admission stories not about the admitters?
Raphael & Rome after Lockdown
For art lovers, now is the perfect time to visit The Eternal City
Free speech is for losers
Everyone loves free speech when their side isn’t in power
“E” for effort
Exams fiasco: Gavin Williamson has failed
Libertarians and progressives are too irresponsible for freedom
Authoritarianism is the perverse outcome of irresponsible forms of libertarianism and progressivism
All Booked Up
Is there a cure for bibliomania?
Reclaiming Becket
London’s great saint needs a reboot
2+2 doesn’t equal 5
What is truth?
America’s Popish Plot
The maze of lunacy surrounding one of the USA’s most outlandish conspiracy theories
Britten, Hindemith, RVW, Martinu (Claves)
The 1934 suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams demands a sympathy for the rolling contours of the English countryside
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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
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Worldviews apart
There are disturbing differences between how British Muslims and non-Muslims see the world
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy