Burns Night
Crashed and Burnsed
ASH Smyth gives a poetically bad speech at the Galle Literary Festival for the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
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
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
A garden reborn
a garden reborn
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette