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Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all