Sparks brothers
Sparks of Life
The end of the Sparks brothers’ career matches the intensity and originality of its beginning
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
The Grand Migrant Hotel Rwanda
All are welcome at Kagame’s eccentric migrant hostelry, and don’t worry about the roving deathsquads: they’re harmless
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing