Artillery Row
Cancel the Turner
It looks like it was made by artists who don’t like art and chosen by judges who don’t either
The Case for defence
The Conservatives can hardly claim to be the friend of the armed forces
Clive James, the Kid from Kogarah
A tribute to the late Clive James, by David Herman
High Drama on the Podium
Norman Lebrecht on the late, great Mariss Jansons who died on December 1st
Whither the Lib Dems?
The fate that awaits the Liberal Democrats after such an awful election
Is Scottish Conservatism heading south?
Graham Stewart on why a lot of ‘Cons Holds’ are actually too close to call
Diminishing returns
Why voters are switching off from the TV debates
The realignment election
Can the Tories win enough old Labour seats to compensate their losses elsewhere?
Death of a polymath
The great British opera director Jonathan Miller has died aged 85. Here is one of his last interviews
Mining for votes
Lewis Baston on the link between coalfields and the 2019 election
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
