The Last Dinner Party
Roxy Music but they’re all Kate Bush
The Last Dinner Party are a proper rock band, but the spell is too easily broken
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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 case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Our AI overlords will end bigotry
Bring on the machines
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad