How Browns lost the battle of the brasseries
Last month, the founder of the Browns restaurant chain was charged with killing his mother. Shocking news, but it feels…
Very pretty and pretty gruesome: Ballad of a Small Player reviewed
Ballad of a Small Player opens with Lord Doyle, played by Colin Farrell, hiding from security in his trashed casino…
Meet Britain’s new RoboCops
‘Small but mighty,’ is how Baroness Casey described Bedfordshire Police when she released her report on grooming gangs over the summer. She…
Welcome to the age of reluctant socialism
There are no revolutionaries in Europe’s streets. No communists marching on parliament buildings. If anything, the continent has seen a…
I’m the heir to Manhattan
I’m owed around $680 billion. Some 77 acres of downtown Manhattan belong to the Carter family, according to a letter…
How private equity ruined Britain
What has happened to Britain’s rivers isn’t a mistake. The fact that serious pollution is up 60 per cent on…
Why fishing matters
Not everything is about money. If it were, we’d be merrily sending our oldies off to assisted dying hubs to…
Welcome to Scuzz Nation
Reform’s success in last week’s local elections has been attributed to many causes. Labour’s abolition of the winter fuel payment…
Yes, men need saving
A few weeks ago, when Adolescence first came out, I found myself reading some of the academic literature on incels.…
Pensioners, it’s your turn to cough up
The welfare state is grotesquely unfair. There are people who receive thousands of pounds from the taxpayer with little government…
Meet the Zoomer Doomers: Britain’s secret right-wing movement
One of the striking aspects of the AfD’s success in the German elections was the party’s popularity among the young,…
Could inheritance tax changes help farmers in the long run?
Britain’s farmers are in a bind. Despite sitting on land worth millions, they are unable to release that wealth without…
Leaving the ECHR won’t fix Britain’s immigration chaos
If you tuned into the Tory party leadership race, you will have heard rather a lot about the European Convention…
‘Yobbos come in all sorts of colours’: on the ground in Rotherham
The Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, Rotherham, is opposite an RSPB nature reserve. For months, its 130 rooms have been…
Are you a Gail’s or a Wimpy voter?
Liberal Democrat activists were reportedly told to ‘get out the Gail’s vote’, targeting people who visit the over-priced artisanal cafés.…
A brief history of presidential assassinations
That image of Donald Trump, blood streaming down his face, fist raised in front of the banner of the republic,…
The grubby world of political betting
If you’re going to fleece a bookies, it would be wise to ask a friend to place the bet on…
Daniel Dennett’s last interview: ‘AI could signal the end of human civilisation’
Do we still need philosophers? Daniel Dennett, who died last week, believed strongly that we do. ‘Scientists have a tendency…
Why can police sue for being asked to do their jobs?
I can’t imagine being confronted with the body of someone who has jumped to their death: limbs splayed in ways…
Baby steps
The curious business of fertility
Britain is stuck in a fertility trap
Pope Francis wants you to have sex. Or at least he wants Italians to have more sex. The country, he says,…
Boys in a bind
Today’s sexual politics is damaging young men
The madness of the lockdown trials
I think we can now admit that Covid sent us all a little loopy. Matt Hancock certainly seems it, handing…
