Roger Fry
When modern art crossed the Channel
How British culture belatedly embraced radical modernism
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws