Illumino
The past in pictures
Twelve manuscripts, read and re-read over eight centuries, can tell the heart of medieval Britain
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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
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion