Columns
Christmas at the crossroads
We must pull ourselves out of our current malaise if we are to say we can live, and live well
Hardy Perennial
James Milner will break Gareth Barry’s record, and no one better deserving
Spare me your “Books of the Year”
Or, how to come across as a person of taste and refinement in the annual back-slapping fest
Arty types: Gary Lomax
Since the band broke up, Gary’s second career has proceeded in fits and starts
Online Screening: the inconvenient truth
Far fewer applicants now find themselves in the cold corridors of medieval quads
Ciao to la Scala of football
A cricket club founded by an expatriate lacemaker evolved into one of the wealthiest football sides in the world
The trans craze aftermath
What happens to those caught up in the social contagion, once it has passed?
The myth of the NHS
The longer the avoidance, the more painful the reformation
Why can’t we all wear stab vests?
They are affordable, stylish and surely a small price to pay to uphold diversity and inclusion
Should we blow up drug boats?
The US government has killed almost 100 people in its attacks on small vessels
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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
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market