Mark Gatiss
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
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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
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution