Moral Panics
A moral panic about moral panics?
We are in danger of making unhinged generalisations about unhinged generalisers
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late