Seiji Ozawa
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long