Phobia
Bang, bang, I’m dead
‘The worst thing about my condition is that it makes me feel like the world’s biggest wimp’ – Dominic Hilton opens up about his lifelong phobia
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished