The Line of Beauty
Booty and the green-eyed beast
What plays out as limpid tragedy on the page becomes trouser-dropping farce
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
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 migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
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
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
We do not need mass migration for growth
Critics of mass migration have to be careful not to concede too much in their arguments
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Spielberg’s ho-hum space chase
Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List
How broad should a broad church be?
A party needs borders or it becomes meaningless