The Victorian City
The word from Britain’s streets
Patrick Galbraith fears for the health of an old friend
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire