Christmas
‘Tis the season to be Zooming?
After months of misery and lockdowns, the prospect of losing Christmas would be disastrous for so many
Crucified again
Marcus Walker laments the new antisemitism
Party pieces
Thomas Woodham-Smith sees out the antique year
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
The ankle tag and the ballot box
The courts convicted Marine Le Pen, but left her political fate to French voters