Bashar al-Assad
How the fall of Assad has undermined Putin
He is struggling in Ukraine and he has now failed in Syria
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Syria’s civil war 10 years on
Syria’s war has licensed this century’s worst growth in violent depravity – and it shows no sign of ending soon
Endless tragedy of blood and sand
Syria’s civil war is the latest grisly chapter in more than a millennium of conflict
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
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
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium