Jacobean Theatre
A devil to relish
The stories that tell us that women are damned if they play the game of sexual availability and just as doomed if they don’t
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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
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses