Nicholas Boys Smith
All must have beauty
There is finally a coherent plan to improve urban development in Britain – its implementation would be transformative.
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
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?
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion