Robert Conquest
Satire needs to find new targets
There are still plenty of institutions worth mocking
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it