Seville
End of a bullfighting era
Morante may now retire, weeping like Alexander because there are no more lands to conquer
Struggles of a veteran matador
Familiarity can make the heart grow cooler, but greatness can still prevail
Sublime in Seville
Happiness is a cold, autumnal day with a warm gun
Soma-ed to the max in Seville
Partaking of the delights of the capital city of Spain’s Andalusia increasingly feels too Aldous Huxley for comfort
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
Country house colonisation
An attempt to achieve historical accountability ends up being an exercise in historical obscurantism
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
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
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency