Peggy Ashcroft
Lets hear it for Rattigan again
The consummate playwright of the obscure workings of the human heart
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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
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
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them