Artillery Row
Reality has been Cancelled
Helen Dale reviews Cynical Theories, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
Two Cheers for Nuclear Proliferation
An obsession with the dangers of proliferation overlooks its positive effects
BLM racists don’t speak for me
How have racial slurs become progressive politics?
Drop the agitprop
David Hare is an extraordinarily accomplished writer when he doesn’t revert to contemporary politics
Mission Accomplished
Finley Harnett reviews the BBC’s Once Upon a Time in Iraq
The man who made antiques cool
Christopher Gibbs inspired a generation of dealers, aesthetes and designers
Young man in a hurry
Is Douglas Ross ready to lead the Scottish Conservatives?
The death of Theatre Criticism
The great critics always began before they were forty. Who are their equivalents today?
England’s soft underbelly
Patrick West reviews The Channel, by Charlie Connelly
Silenced in Court
The ECHR thinks a country is beyond the pale if it allows its citizens to say what they like
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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
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order