Oxford Playhouse
Noel Coward’s public genius
This production of Private Lives amuses as much as it moves its audience
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe