Evening Standard
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country