BBC
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
21st century villains
The Walliams dilemma
The hounding of a poet and teacher
Communism is the only guarantee of human happiness
And that was the news …
The decline of quality journalism amid a “jungle of drivel” on social media
What the BBC leaves out
How to cover the news without covering the news
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
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
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening