Roy Strong
Sir Roy Strong
The mischievous cultural commentator and diarist who changed the way museums think about the past
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Extending “work of equal value” claims is absurd
Keir Starmer’s parting gift to the economy could be catastrophic
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration