Matt Sleat
Bogged down in intellectual foppery
The post-liberalism movement has so far undertaken little more than ideological bickering
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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 migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Extending “work of equal value” claims is absurd
Keir Starmer’s parting gift to the economy could be catastrophic
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Dozing in the orchard
Chekhov at the RSC is a lot sleepier than it should be
Shooting the breeze
Patrick Galbraith welcomes an ambitious new shoot tenant
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England