Ludwig Wittgenstein
Welcome to Covidworld
Ian James Kidd and Matthew Ratcliffe assess our new altered reality, where accepted norms do not apply
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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 government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
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.
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid