Columns
Ghost in the machine
Does the printer really “experience” anything?
A rascal – but leave it at that
We need to mind our language when describing those with whom we disagree
Association Football: A great game gone to rot
The sport is now characterised by the conditioned reflex of dishonesty, the bleating of the wronged
We can’t trust the National Trust’s history
How on earth did the National Trust hire a non-historian to do an historian’s job?
Ban Trans myths by writing ‘FACT’
Prevent the rise of fascism by letting the state arrest people for what they think
Sealed with a Glasgow kiss
From trans rights to its independence strategy, a bitter war divides one of the most popular parties in Europe
Short cut to a Mob takeover
Today the multiply-tattooed Balkan war criminal look is popular
Whitehall takes the knee
When the MoD’s top man signs off with a BLM hashtag it’s a brave official who doesn’t get the message
Six ways to make things better
Bringing back the Net Book Agreement would be a good start for badly-paid authors
Fundragers splash the cash
The money being poured into US elections is soaring – but it’s often wasted
The day my terrier found internet fame
Why do some videos go viral while others slide into oblivion?
Former spin doctor divulges on India’s ruling dynasty
Sanjay Jha’s new book reveals the degeneration of the oldest party in the world’s largest democracy
The slab from the lab – is meat cultured from cells the future (or end) of farming?
The investor and author of Moo’s Law, Jim Mellon, talks to Graham Stewart about the coming agrarian revolution
Blueprints for laughter, life, love and belonging
Fiction works on the understanding that none of it really happened; we agree to believe it anyway, says John Self
Shock of the new
People are terrified of modernity’s great gift: the sudden freedom to make appalling noise, says Robert Thicknesse
The red hand gang
Patrick Galbraith says field sports are a boon for male friendship
The cost of being a lockdown sceptic
The British intelligentsia as a class has failed in the most public way possible to defend free speech
Should Boris keep out of Scotland, whatever the Covid level?
Even many Scottish Conservatives seem nervous about the prime minister’s visits north. So who else is going to save them?
Diego Maradona was not a victim
We have no sense of the tragic, only of victimhood, says Theodore Dalrymple
Derailing the gravy train
The question of human rights, Christian morals and Western ethics has hitherto been an academic debate; now it is in the public arena