Artillery Row
Caravaggio’s great extremes
Caravaggio’s art is a vivid rebuke to an artificial idealised reality
The British monarchy has never been more secure
It is the least unpopular and controversial element of the establishment
Murders for November
Time to snuggle up with the best of crime fiction
Censorship is not the answer to hatred
Don’t throw the free speech baby out with the anti-semitic bathwater
Abolish “non-crime hate incidents” for good
We need the police to stop investigating “harm” and focus on crime again
Britain must escape from the prison of foreign labour
It is a short-term solution with grave second order consequences
Against Awaab’s Law
In defence of damp and mouldy tenancies
How to rescue the grooming gangs inquiry
It needs power, resources and freedom from the Home Office
Trimming the runaway state
A slimmer government is not a fringe libertarian concern but a national priority
Exposing the anti-gambling agenda
Don’t bet on hearing good arguments
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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
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy