Artillery Row
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
