Data Journalism
Can population density really tell us anything about Covid?
A closer look at the data suggests suggests otherwise
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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?
We can Handel more
Handel: Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline &c. (Prospero)
How broad should a broad church be?
A party needs borders or it becomes meaningless
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
Haydn in the light
Joseph Haydn: Piano sonatas (Signum/Pentatone)
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves