Columns
The scarlet letter
A touchy-feely Labour government must embrace the ugly reality of business
A very innocent man
Donald Trump is innocent squared. He never does, or is, anything by halves
Only Joe Biden can save America
He needs to keep reminding the American public that unless they vote for him they are evil and racist
A misguided election briefing
The Church must recognise there are Christians on both the left and right of politics
Graham Topman: festival organiser
Roll up, roll up, it’s time for another festival of arts, ideas and Graham (mostly Graham)
Balance the books
Britain’s soaring debt may not be as sustainable in the long term as figures suggest
No golden years
A tragedy in four words: Baby Boomer, still working
Heaven scent
Harrods is no help in the quest for Raffouche
The space man
Thomas Müller has provided great sporting inspiration
Summer for sale
Cricket has always bent with the winds of change
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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
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor