public safety
Don’t just do something
We should be more sceptical of reactive legislation
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful