The New York Times
The decline of the quality press
Frequent hyperbole means the media would struggle to describe a genuine disaster
Why Brits should care about what’s happening at the New York Times
The increasingly partisan ways of the New York Times is setting an agenda that UK media outlets like the BBC appear unable to resist
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh