Columns
Drag queens teach vital lessons
The last thing these people want is attention
The games people play
The fascination with esoteric sports with quirky rules and limited spread
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Sadiq Khan has been ordered to explain his ousting of Met police chief Cressida Dick
Live on TV: history at work
The making of a TV historian
Simply the best
It is not just trophies and success that mark out Federer, but grace, personality and charm
Saints and sinners
The dotty suggestion the Queen be canonised is an expression of a hope she will not be forgotten
The state we’re in
Britain isn’t working any more
Arsenic and old lace
Autumn arrives and nostalgia descends
The diary of Larry the Cat
Here came the new boss
Danny Lestrange: Eternal Columnist
From the immaturity of young adulthood to the immaturity of old age
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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
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring