Artillery Row
Punch drunk
How many more beatings can Rachel Reeves take?
The Budget was nakedly ideological
Does this dying government want to take the country with it?
Preaching is not a crime
What Shaun O’Sullivan’s case tells us about the threat to liberty
Why we cannot trust official inquiries
They can be a way for the powerful to neutralise genuinely difficult questions
The Leadbeater Bill is not limited enough
The Bill must be amended to disapply the Human Rights Act 1998
In defence of jury trials
David Lammy’s proposal to abolish trial by jury in all but the most serious cases is wicked and irrational
Gallows humour
The Budget was a terribly depressing farce
No word should be inherently unsayable
Context matters — whatever the language police might say
Leftists are wrong about Denmark
Mass immigration is no less controversial than it was before
Assisted suicide is not more important than the law
Charlie Falconer shouldn’t be allowed to bully the House of Lords to its own assisted suicide
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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)
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour