Stephen Cohen
Stephen Cohen: historian, polemicist and friend of Gorbachev
Cohen was a prophet of America’s decline
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do