Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee is wrong about comedy and censorship
Despite the awfulness of much “anti-woke” comedy, opponents of political correctness have a point
Rabble-rouser in chief
Our increasingly polarised and angry age wants not entertainment, but preachers
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The sectarian state
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the Balkanisation of Britain
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs