Talent
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
When painters lose their sight
How the loss of vision can both help and hinder artists
Welcome to the unfrozen North
How Canada reinvented its musical prowess
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear