Artillery Row
Why British universities are bowing to Beijing
Commercial interests appear to be compromising academic freedom
Ukraine must fight corruption as well as Russia
The war effort will be damaged if people have no faith in the authorities
The woman that fought back
Aileen Wuornos asked me for help. She didn’t deserve to die
Winston Churchill was not Tony Blair
The great wartime prime minister was a complex thinker as well as a complex man
Should young actors copy Richard Burton?
His remarkable and unpredictable talent would be hard to pull off today
Kemi’s open goal
Even Badenoch didn’t miss today
Review: The Running Man
Three endings does not suggest a happy director
The Right must stop playing the victim
Voters back a strong horse, not a plaintive loser
In defence of doorstopping
An attempt to criminalise going to the homes of elected officials is unjustifiably broad
Sectarian voting is preventable
The Gaza Independents are pursuing an organisational strategy which can be countered
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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)
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble