Nimko Ali
Perils of a cause célèbre
A patronising and draconian response to female genital mutilation risks victimising women who have already been abused
Embrace uncool Britannia
Warhammer is a barnstorming British success, so why the lack of recognition?
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Keir Starmer’s AI plans are not very intelligent
Labour do not seem to have grasped the material implications of artificial intelligence
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
Bad guidance and empty words
The government cannot be trusted to protect single-sex spaces
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
