Columns
The UK’s four nations can be reinvented and flourish
The Anglo-British belief in national self-government could forge a new path
A year to forget, already
Who will stand up to the stupidity of the electorate?
A philosopher of deeds
Roger Scruton was a doer as well as a thinker
The International Criminal Court is a mess
If the ICC had brought more warlords to justice, it might have earned our respect
Tom’s ghostly debut
X.Trapnel on the latest publishing politics
Purge the puritans
Marcus Walker regrets the new age of joylessness
What will Brexit do?
No control has been taken back. Even if it is, what will be done with it?
Welcome waste land
The marshes, creeks, hulks and hidden beaches of the Thames estuary are thrilling
Greek good news
Budget balancing works — and naive spendthrift Keynesianism doesn’t
Liberalism: a bad idea and how to cope with it
The piecemeal constitutional “reforms” of the last 20 years fall on the liberal side and the results have been predictably disastrous
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
Murders for March
Sharp lines, twisting plots and colourful characters
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
