Satire
Lucien Grote: Experimental Playwright
Lucien veers between lamenting modern theatre’s disdain for “truly serious work” and suspecting that it all could have gone a great deal worse
What are universities coming to?
A spectre is haunting British student politics: the spectre of the pro-life movement
FOR IMMEDIATE USELESSNESS
Hutton OUT; Roger Knapman IN
Quackery via cartography
You better believe the earth is flat
Spare us easy satire
Satire is supposed to be the unsayable, not virtue-signalling two-bit doggerel
Latex memories
Spitting Image (BritBox)
What Spitting Image did to British politics
As Spitting Image returns to our screens, its original impact has not been forgotten
Don’t worry, novelists are still envious and bitter
Unlike Douglas Murray, John Self thinks the satirical novel isn’t dead
Satire needs to find new targets
There are still plenty of institutions worth mocking
The fascism of POG-shaming
Mussolini may have had his flaws, but at least he didn’t diet
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Windy Whitty
Chris Whitty is wrong about so-called “fat jabs”
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics