Satire
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home