Charles II
The building king
King Charles can be a late bloomer
Pulsating panorama of a complex decade
A new history of the Interregnum rescues this forgotten period of history from oblivion
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,