Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
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There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion