Satire
The Riyadh Comedy Festival is a bad joke
Comedians should not agree not to insult the powerful
Mandelson: Let’s chat about Keir…
Leadership speculation, the Turquoise Wave and no hard feelings
Is anyone following the leader?
The Conservatives have a long way to go before winning back relevance
The camping trip
A sizzling summer of sex has passed me by
Arrest this high priest of hate
The End of Woke is ignorant, offensive, and I have no intention of reading it
The Hon. Jeremy Wellbourne
Are you a young (under 50) writer with a passion for social justice?
Peston’s Inbox: Going nowhere
A city break, Ibiza DJ and very normal holiday
Go substack yourself!
I’ve had it up to here with your nonsense!
That Kemi reshuffle in full
The new Conservative frontbench is almost as full of talent as the last
Our position is No More U-Turns
Slowly going round in circles
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
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership