Brendan O’Neill
The Marxist cell in Number 10
Adam LeBor investigates the former communist cult that has found common cause with the prime minister and the Brexiteer Conservative right
The Lockdown Sceptics
The ‘liberators’ fighting back against the ‘ever-lockers’
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Mutilation theology
Asserting mastery over their future selves is a feature of mastectomy, not a bug
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue