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Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
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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
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
A good book about great powers
Jan Rüger has written a fine albeit not definitive book on British and German relations
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles