David Mellor
Silk but no silken tongue
Sometimes the top legal officers need to give the government advice it doesn’t want to hear
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
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
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?