Blackouts
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
We are on the brink of blackouts
The establishment must wake up to the scale of British energy insecurity
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay