War on Terror
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Invading Mexico is an insane idea
It would be costly and it would fail
The right way to mark this Afghan war anniversary
It really didn’t have to turn out this way
Behind bars, among stars
Escaped from Nazi Germany, a teenage boy found himself a prisoner in Britain
Letter from Washington: The America they knew
This week’s US casualties in Kabul lived through a tragically narrow slice of American history
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier