Man About Town
It’s a wrap
London seems like a brave new world after touching down from Venice
Sock it to ‘em
Omicron-cancelled events and surprised marionettes
London gossip, Dickensian Christmasses and experimental castles
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Robert Thicknesse, Alexander Larman and Charles Saumarez Smith
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad