decline
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
State of the arts coverage
The BBC has caved to cowardice over culture
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
No happy endings
Our worst sin has been to be weak, rather than merely to be wrong
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters