JL Carr
My first Carr
A S H Smyth discovers a true English literary eccentric, born on this day in 1912
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
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
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Why violence is political
Attempts to de-politicise the murder of Anne Widdecombe will fail
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests