Columns
Peston’s Inbox: Going nowhere
A city break, Ibiza DJ and very normal holiday
The Nigel principle
Is Reform up to it?
Working people
The latest innovation of the nomenklatura class and their apparatchik subordinates
A crisis of sex and money
The publishing economic model is broken whilst male authors are shunned
Our position is No More U-Turns
Slowly going round in circles
Why so many Northerners?
Callously relegated to Norway in October, one should be “grateful for the fjords” apparently
How AI is making us more stupid
There is no consensus about what constitutes AI abuse versus use
Why bankers are living saints
Fiction and drama are filled with unhappy financiers, but the real world is very different
You won’t find God in your iPhone
Church should be where you put aside your iPhone and reconnect to the physical world
Make every day a Pride day
Many organisations this year forgot to put up their flags
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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
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
The truth about Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman