Commemoration
Some observations on public commemoration
Memorials should be meaningful, not mawkish
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
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,
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Love on manoeuvres
La fille du régiment, Covent Garden
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)