High Society
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Most Read
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party