London
Can London never change?
Peter Ackroyd treated the city as a semi-living entity resistant to human intervention
Nick, 30 ans, wants a driverless tube
Sometimes we just need to do something for Nick
The best-laid plans
A decade-old novel is worth reconsidering for how it addresses the questions of modernity
Things can only get worse
There is a vast epistemic divide between those who experience decline, and those who don’t
The authorities do not want to fix lawless London
Encouraging a low trust society is encouraging a rise in crime
There is nothing good about graffiti
We should have no tolerance for people who make our public spaces uglier
Panic on the streets
A new book is a gripping account of terror and death in London
A Tube train to nowhere
Public-spirited activism can obscure a crisis in state legitimacy
Oval’s books go up in bureaucracy
We should mourn the loss of Oval Tube’s book swap library
Getting my phone nicked in Soho
Stealing cash from my account is one thing, but my free coffee? That’s personal
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity