Rioting
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Watching the Riots: Berlin, Trilling and Bellow on the Sixties
The riots of the 1960s left a generation of intellectuals out in the cold. Will the George Floyd demonstrations do the same?
Temperature rises in Paris
Paris unlocks but restrictions remain in place to prevent rioting
Britain’s George Floyd protesters exude the stench of humbug
The London demonstrators want to feel good without having to behave well
Most Read
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
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be