Joseph Wright
England’s Caravaggio
Matthew Craske’s book challenges the prevailing idea of Joseph Wright as product and servant of rationalism and Enlightenment
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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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs