Jess De Wahls
On Lying
The line between dishonesty and stupidity can be difficult to spot
No place for women in art
If there’s one thing that unites elite British artists today, it’s that they’re all performatively woke or shamefully silent
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them