Pensioners don’t need a £10 Christmas bonus

yesterday 50

Charles Amos

Payday / Pensioners don’t need a £10 Christmas bonus

yesterday 50

Charles Amos

Inside the mind of Putin’s real hatchet man

yesterday 8

Mark Galeotti

John Lewis’s Christmas decorations are its tackiest yet

yesterday 8

Claire Jackson

The art of owning up

yesterday 7

Julie Burchill

Hitler and Churchill: the artists at war

yesterday 7

Nigel Jones

Sunday shows round-up: Reeves denies misleading voters before Budget

yesterday 10

Joe Bedell-Brill

For all Reeves’s ‘lying’ denials, this is just the beginning

yesterday 6

James Heale

Anti-Semitism still lurks in the shadows of Christianity

yesterday 10

The Reverend Michael Coren

The lost world of the British sex comedy

yesterday 10

Paul Burke

Mary Millington / The lost world of the British sex comedy

yesterday 10

Paul Burke

Blood libel / Anti-Semitism still lurks in Christianity’s shadow

yesterday 10

The Reverend Michael Coren

The glory of gravy

yesterday 10

Olivia Potts

Carry on romping / The lost art of the British sex comedy

yesterday 10

Paul Burke

Cheap nor cheerful / John Lewis’s Christmas decorations are its tackiest yet

yesterday 10

Claire Jackson

Now the cabinet turn on Reeves

yesterday 0

Steerpike

Secret weapon / Inside the mind of Putin’s real hatchet man

yesterday 0

Mark Galeotti

Park politics / Ireland wants you to forget Chaim Herzog

yesterday 0

Brendan O’Neill

Zack Polanski is the real winner of the Your Party conference

yesterday 0

James Heale

The inconvenient Indian / The downfall of Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man

It’s an awkward time in the upper echelons of the Canadian cultural establishment. It’s come to light that influential indigenous author and former...

previous day 30

Jane Stannus

Crime and punishment / There are some crimes where only a jury can ensure justice

David Lammy’s plans to prune the right to trial by jury are certainly drastic. Juries would remain only for murder, manslaughter, rape and cases...

previous day 30

Andrew Tettenborn

Common culture / Why the BBC keeps on blundering

The dust is settling on the BBC’s latest crisis over its sloppy editing of a Donald Trump video, but it won’t be long before the next blunder. The...

previous day 10

Theo Hobson

The downfall of Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man

It’s an awkward time in the upper echelons of the Canadian cultural establishment. It’s come to light that influential indigenous author and former...

previous day 10

Jane Stannus

Radiohead are joyless

Last week a Radiohead-head friend offered me a ticket for the last of their run of shows at London’s O2 Arena. The poor, deluded fool had paid...

previous day 9

James Innes-Smith

We’ll miss juries when they’re gone

At the dawn of my stellar journalistic career I served for two years as Crown Court correspondent of the Cambridge Evening News, and every working...

previous day 10

Nigel Jones

Claude Lanzmann would despair of today’s Europe

The late Claude Lanzmann, director of the monumental Shoah – the nine-and-a-half hour documentary about the Holocaust, released in 1985 and widely...

previous day 10

Robin Ashenden

There are some crimes where only a jury can ensure justice

David Lammy’s plans to prune the right to trial by jury are certainly drastic. Juries would remain only for murder, manslaughter, rape and cases...

previous day 9

Andrew Tettenborn

Why the BBC keeps on blundering

The dust is settling on the BBC’s latest crisis over its sloppy editing of a Donald Trump video, but it won’t be long before the next blunder. The...

previous day 9

Theo Hobson

Israel is turning the screws on Hezbollah

The killing of Lebanese Hezbollah military chief Haytham Ali Tababtabai by Israel this week reflects how much the balance of power between...

previous day 9

Jonathan Spyer

Tom Stoppard was himself to the end

previous day 6

Daniel Johnson

Ireland wants you to forget Chaim Herzog

previous day 20

Brendan O’Neill

A defeated people / The strange death of England

previous day 20

Tucker Carlson

Misery tour / Radiohead are joyless

previous day 2

James Innes-Smith

The ‘Your Party’ conference is a mess

It used to be said that the old Liberal party had so few MPs that they could fit in the back of a taxi. At least they were willing to share the...

previous day 1

James Heale

Sir Tom Stoppard: ‘I aspire to write for posterity’

Sir Tom Stoppard, the British playwright, died at his home in Dorset today aged 88. In 2019, he gave a rare in-depth interview to Douglas Murray....

previous day 3

Douglas Murray

Fact check: are the NYT’s experts right about UK immigration?

Yesterday’s release of immigration figures by the ONS didn’t make for particularly pleasant reading. While net migration had fallen to around...

friday 10

Steerpike

Starmer faces Labour rebellion over employment U-turn

Another day, another drama. On Thursday afternoon, it emerged that Sir Keir Starmer’s government were rolling back their commitment to change the ‘...

friday 10

Steerpike

So what if Nigel Farage was the school bully?

There may well be, somewhere in this nation of ours, a long-established succession of sensitive, emotionally aware 14-year-olds who can appreciate...

friday 20

Rob Crossan

Starmer’s Mr Fix-it / Nick Thomas-Symonds: ‘The Brexit architects essentially ran away’

With his owlish expression and affable manner, Nick Thomas-Symonds looks more like the academic that he was, rather than the political bomb...

friday 10

Tim Shipman

Books / Jessica was the only Mitford worth taking seriously

Can there really be any point in yet another fat book about one of the Mitford sisters? Their antics have been appearing in print since the late...

friday 5

Anne Chisholm

The Ajax scandal is worse than embarrassing

Luke Pollard, recently promoted to Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry, must have looked forward to visiting General Dynamics UK in Merthyr...

friday 10