Rap music
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
Rap’s dilemma
Sarah Ditum unwraps the rap culture war.
Should the police censor music?
Drill music presents itself as the soundtrack of liberation, but it’s dangerously mired in gang violence
The unusual, the unsigned, the uncategorisable
Hip-hop has its place, but not necessarily on an alternative daytime radio station
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself