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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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh