Madonna
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician