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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war