Loss
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
When painters lose their sight
How the loss of vision can both help and hinder artists
Is it safe?
The torture of our new safety obsessed national psyche
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
The sad ubiquity of political dishonesty
Is it too much to expect politicians to be straight with us sometimes?
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
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
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough