Table Talk
Mend your ways
Eschewing the new is oh so au courant
The moment of truth
We need to be honest about the reality of the kill
Tip? Don’t bet on it
Stephen Pollard: he’s not the man the bookies fear
Mama mia!
Claudia Savage-Gore angsts about being interviewed on a chi-chi website
The brats who ruin brunch
Brunch provides the luxurious pleasure of a relaxed mid-morning meal until the ankle-biters arrive
In a poet’s footsteps
A trip to Ted Hughes’s “loneliest place”
First past the post
The Critic’s Racing Awards
Jotting and plotting
Real gardeners need to keep a journal
The real McCoy
With a little effort, haggis can be a real treat
The man who liberated the Ritz
David Bruce: “the last American aristocrat” renowned for his oenophilia
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing