Columns
Forlorn Hoop dreams
The club needs consistency, not the constant psychodrama of play-off hopes followed by relegation fears
Ed Davey in rat-infested custard
Even torture wouldn’t stop Davey from voting for cleaner streets and better-run councils
A fork in the road
Badenoch seems to think she can coast to victory because Labour are every bit as hapless
Green claims
An envelope more hectoring than election propaganda
Kill the football bill
Starmer hasn’t grasped that over-regulation is inimical to economic growth
A last act of love
There’s a reassurance in new shoots and the proof that life goes on
Too much of a good thing?
The administrative class in UK higher education is bloated, overpaid and arrogant
Do countries have ethics?
A state depends on its reputation, not just its wealth or power
Homosexuality is transphobic
The woke case against same-sex attraction
Who are the household names now?
Cultural fragmentation has led to a decline in shared knowledge
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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 masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule