Columns
Denial or confession?
Mandelson is a true prince of the logocracy, whose greatest skill was, and still is, the emptying of language of fixed meaning
All sound and fury
No politician has the endurance, let alone conviction, to upend the Whitehall orthodoxy
21st century villains
The Walliams dilemma
La bella figura
On Italian styling
Bippi Strangeways
Activist poet
The world’s most beloved oratorio
Hallelujah to that
Killed, not “neutralised”
“neutralise”
The “No Debate” dodos
“Trans women are women, no debate” is what American psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton called a thought-terminating cliche
Where the Eagle dared
The “Pilot of the Future” might finally have reason to be proud of British engineering
The warmth of the collective
Communism is the only guarantee of human happiness
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
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 lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false