Humour
On kids and imagination
We don’t have to teach them how to play
What privilege is really about
Anne Frank faced problems but …
Amanda Scrimgeour: Glamour hound
Some people are born to rake over the coals of ancient scandals
Reinvention and rediscoveries
An actress turned author, a Kafkaesque fantasy and a 1960s re-release stir the imagination
Last laugh
Intellectual wits like P J O’Rourke are rare birds these days
Fart for art’s sake
A not-so-fond farewell to the “sophomoric male”, the man-child purveyor of infantile humour
Bring back bawdiness
Bawdy humour and the pantomime go together like sausages and mash, whatever you make of that banger
Where is the Waugh or Wodehouse of our time?
Comic writing: light distraction or social mirror?
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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
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them