Satire
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
The truth about Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
Peston’s inbox
It’s all nonsense, and none of it happened, and I can’t remember it, and it’s not what it looks like
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale