Sir Lenny Henry
The folly of self-flagellation
An older, patriotic multiculturalism has curdled in recent years
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Andy Burnham is a coward
Andy Burnham’s refusal to submit himself to serious questioning tells us more about his premiership than any manifesto could
Romance rethink
An optimistic rejoinder to common dating advice
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade