HMRC
Killing the London Custom House
It’s every bland, soulless, “luxury” hotel development that has been proposed for the past thirty years
Two Britains
Former Labour MP Natascha Engel says the country divides on our relationship with HMRC
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war