Columns
Manufacturing Lies
Factories of elite opinion like the Economist will fail if they produce shoddy goods
Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
A doctor’s rites
Theodore Dalrymple reveals how the choice of words in medical obituaries are important
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?
Useful idiot
Rishi Sunak is the Labour Party’s strongest asset
Planning for success
Even with its huge majority, Labour has a finite amount of political capital. It should spend a great deal of it on planning reform
The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.
Strawberry fields? Never
The idea of toughening zoomers up with hard labour is a pointless fantasy
Pathetic fallacy? Pathetic government
Sunak’s sad announcement was miserably symbolic of Conservative failure
How cinemas can save themselves
Watching films at the cinema should be a communal experience
It’s called X, not XXX
Elon Musk is wrong to open the door to porn on X
Loony tunes
Opera begs leave to celebrate lunacy in a different way
Would you trust PC Brother?
The use of unreliable facial recognition technology is growing without sufficient scrutiny or accountability
Did we get Brexit done?
Brexit is unfinished, yes, but the potential is enormous
Mission: Possible
Captain Boring is here to moderately improve the nation
