Annette
Sparks of Life
The end of the Sparks brothers’ career matches the intensity and originality of its beginning
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses