Confederate Statues
Orwell: my self-help guru
Slavery should be reinstated so that it can be abolished by a queer woman of colour
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
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 migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The great pandemic
The Black Death:
A Global History by Thomas Asbridge
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands