Editorial
Elizabeth the Good
We shall not see her like again
Incompetents abroad
Our hopeless foreign policy elite has no idea of what winning in Ukraine looks like — or how to bring it about
The failures of Boris
The Prime Minister is responsible for most of the things that have gone wrong
If it’s broken, fix it
The NI Protocol has not worked, and the EU has done nothing to live up to its commitment to it being temporary
Sounds and sweet airs
Classical music is flourishing in Britain — though if you listened to our cultural elite you’d never know it
Hard times, hard truths
We must see beyond the myths surrounding the Ukraine crisis
Set an example
If the premiership is a monarchy, our kings need better advisers
Who judges the judges?
We are living in an age of Puritan orthodoxy
Blob ONE, Number Ten NONE
Our overtaken by events December leader
Cruel to be kind
Validating everyone’s wishes leaves us prone to outbreaks of self-indulgence
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded