Hamlet
The undiscovered country
Ian McKellen’s Hamlet meets impossibly high expectations
Freedom fighters
The radical East German playwright Heiner Müller and Michael Frayn have a lot in common
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth