How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Amicus curAI?
The implementation of AI into the judicial process must be handled with care
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
The melting pot that boiled over
Beirut was once a playground for the rich and famous, but now seemingly destined for decline
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
The cinematic future is bright
“The End” is in sight for communal film-watching, right? Wrong
Is cricket growing up and leaving home?
In many ways the sport is thriving, but there is danger ahead
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Moving in mysterious ways
Normally, a warning comes with some kind of threat
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
Cecilia Featherstonehaugh
Posh publisher
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
Eyes on a miserly prize
It’s not just owners who are being fleeced
Athenian ambrosia
Savour a culinary renaissance in Greece
Food fit for an angel
Celebrate Michaelmas in style
