Peter Capaldi
The end of Doctor Who
The Doctor has become deeply embroiled in a battle he can’t win — the culture war
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
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
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Cringing at the cliffedge
How British satire, and British politics, became painfully unfunny
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair