Columns
Nigel: Who didn’t admire Putin?
Rob has another rifle through Peston’s Inbox
Porn is degrading society
Standing out in a saturated market means ever more extreme content
Mustn’t grumble
The dog-in-the-manger outlook still persists in Tottenham
Pirate of the Caribbean
The world of cruise ship entertainment was traditionally the domain of the middle-ranking theatrical
Dei ex machinae
15 August is the worst day of the year for a swim at the Venice Lido
The BBC’s dangerous lies
Our state-funded broadcaster is a biased and boring purveyor of propaganda
Left-wing violence is a myth
Supposedly “violent” acts by the oppressed are, by definition, forms of self-defence
Barry Huggins
Barry, unusually for a Tory MP, has literary leanings
Is the Cambridge VC worth it?
The Chancellorship race was just a distraction from the real position of power in the university
Is it time to abolish cash?
The abolition of physical currency is not a panacea but might help deter tax dodgers
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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
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)