Starship Troopers
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
A garden reborn
a garden reborn