New Statesman
When is a bot not a bot?
Answer: when it’s a feminist
UN-Believable
Women are cancelled, white people are racist, the UN goes woke, and limited and specific law-breaking
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
Nicola Sturgeon and the WhatsApp Group of Secrets
Stern but lovable Scot, Professor Sturgeon, would tell us the whole truth…wouldn’t she?
Britain should stand up to Mauritius
The British Government must make it clear that it will not allow a foreign country to threaten British citizens
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
