Winston Marshall
The rare breed of the conservative rock star
It is a strange world we live in when a musician’s personal politics leads to as much uproar as Winston Marshall’s case has
The Mumford memory hole
The parallels between the latest incident of cancel culture and George Orwell’s 1984 are uncanny
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Crime thrillers 101
A new heist movie is basic and fun
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet