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James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
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
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions