UK Politics
If it’s broken, fix it
The NI Protocol has not worked, and the EU has done nothing to live up to its commitment to it being temporary
Why I fear this censors’ charter
Nadine Dorries’s chilling Online Safety Bill invites professional activists to wipe anything they deem wrongthink from the internet
Shapps is shocked, shocked!
The Prime Minister’s defence calls in a specialist
Boris brings up the rear
The prime minister is consistent only in his untidiness and unpreparedness
The food bank of Threadneedle Street
Andrew Bailey and the art of apocalypse banking
Whitehall’s whispering mandarin
A tribute to Sir Roy Stone, whose secretive role at the heart of Westminster made government possible
Rich history of the revolutionary poor
When rebellion stalked the streets of London
No-demand TV
Have We Got Politicians for You
In an end, a beginning
The Queen’s absence serves as a reminder of the enduring importance of the monarchy
Censored speech
The Queen’s speech revealed a government failing to protect free expression
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
