Naomi Osaka
School of hard knocks
Young people need to be taught resilience, not how to revel in trauma and fragility
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
