Yukio Mishima
A fanatic heart
On the 50th anniversary of his public suicide, Nigel Jones reflects on the strange life and bizarre death of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima
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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
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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)
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill