Artillery Row
What would Terry Pratchett have made of 2020?
Hard graft and moral clarity were central to the Discworld author’s success
Let’s not lose our heads over Rhodes
Can a man loyal to his Oxford college really be all bad?
A gentleman and a player
The well-rounded life of Stuart Wheeler
Criminally good writing
Jeremy Black reviews The Man Who Didn’t Fly, by Margot Bennett
Beach body abortions
An undercover investigation reveals the extent of abortion on demand
Failing to escape Brexit in Buenos Aires
You can’t escape entitled Brits whingeing about Brexit, even in Argentina. But you may encounter the ghosts of Nazis
How Hollywood managed to celebrate German culture in 1954
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s musical coming out just nine years after the end of World War II invited Germany back into polite society
Take Your Picton
Rick Picton Thomas would have known what to say to those bent on removing his ancestor’s statue
The hidden trauma of identity politics
How did identity come to be political and cultural ground zero?
Will the summer recess really be a break?
Graham Stewart and David Scullion discuss what we can expect in the coming weeks
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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
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under