Satire
Drug yourself happy?
The case for microdosing ourselves into being merry
On track for a meltdown
The pros and cons of stalking
21st century villains
The Walliams dilemma
Bippi Strangeways
Activist poet
Peston’s Inbox
As hacked by Robert Hutton
British comedy can’t keep up with the modern world
The return of the Mock the Week is strange and sad
Trying and flailing
How, exactly, are we meant to avoid each other this Christmas?
How to have a healthy Christmas
Stay safe and eat sprouts
Spare me your “Books of the Year”
Or, how to come across as a person of taste and refinement in the annual back-slapping fest
Arty types: Gary Lomax
Since the band broke up, Gary’s second career has proceeded in fits and starts
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
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Has Donald Trump saved Pedro Sánchez’s career?
Criticism from the widely unpopular American president is a political boon for the Spanish prime minister