Columns
An inspired cheat
Admiring William Webb Ellis’s “fine disregard for the rules”
Back to reality
Objective truth is critically important. It is one of the greatest defences of our liberty
Can we save rugby?
Will rugby recover from financial and physical injuries?
Upside of the blockchain bust
As crypto madness fades, its prophets will be forced to do more productive work
Women should agree to disagree
Feminists should forget about pronouns and labels and tackle the real issues of women’s lives
Unholy influences
The weird and not so wonderful world of influencers, and an open invitation to Theodore Dalrymple to get inked
Back in Vogue?
Nova is dreaming of fame and Rishi is trying to get out of the doghouse
How to manage up with Emery
How Unai Emery will turn Villa’s chances around
Death by degrees
The dream of the university is being killed by greed, dogma and bureaucracy
Bring back the traitors
To abandon the crime of treason is to move towards a post-national future
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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
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless