Italian pistachios
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Settlement disagreements
Shabana Mahmood and the Labour Party are absolutely hopeless on immigration
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Sad Scottish schadenfreude
For too many nationalists, England losing is mistaken for Scotland winning
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Faith in fakes
Baudrillard warned that politics would become a world of signs detached from reality. Manchesterism suggests he was right