Banter
Stop Labour’s “banter bouncers” before it’s too late
Clause 20 of the Employment Rights Bill would turn everyday conversation into a legal minefield
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
An idiot’s guide to promoting “public health” policies
How to make irrational authoritarian moralism sound like urgent common sense
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Andy Burnham is a coward
Andy Burnham’s refusal to submit himself to serious questioning tells us more about his premiership than any manifesto could