Journalism
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
And that was the news …
The decline of quality journalism amid a “jungle of drivel” on social media
On British journalists and court eunuchs
Why we learn so miserably little from the British press
What the BBC leaves out
How to cover the news without covering the news
The decline of investigative journalism
Democracy for Sale may have found the only MPs actually doing their jobs
Nuzzi, Lizza, RFK and the death of journalism
What is the point of writing without readable prose?
Shabana Mahmood has fooled Britain’s herdlike media
She has convinced them that relaxing the rules represents tough action
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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
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay