Artillery Row
Decolonise … Maths?
Algebra and arithmetic in the modern sense were not due to the Greeks, writes Mark Ronan
Where all the brave words went after #JeSuisCharlie
Charlie Hebdo has not brought out the best in anyone
The SNP is winning. What is the plan to stop them?
Nicola Sturgeon runs rings around her Scottish opponents. But are there stronger adversaries in Whitehall?
Can the arts world learn to love the Tories?
As the Government injects 1.57bn into arts and culture, Alexander Larman considers the reactions from those in the industry
The ‘equalities’ agenda has backfired
Luther King Jr’s dream of a colour-free world is being thwarted by professional anti-racists
The case for socialist healthcare in one country
If China and Covid can’t shake doctrinal globalism, can anything?
Alexander Zemlinsky: The Mermaid (Pentatone)
Norman Lebrecht breaks a rule in his review of The Mermaid
The ecstasy and the agony
Paul du Quenoy reviews The Club King, Peter Gatien’s memoir of New York nightlife
Keeping the lid on the BBC
Dissident voices are not being heard on the BBC, writes Robin Aitken
Can the BBC rebuild our schools?
To rebuild our education system, we must encourage that undervalued institution; the Family
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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)
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within