There is little value in complaining about foul play if you cannot win

England’ greatest vineyard is up for sale for the first time. Henry Jeffreys looks into whether it will make a good business proposition. 

Keir Starmer enjoyed a warm end to a chilly premiership

Social media has become a convenient whipping boy for Britain’s political class

Removing Gavin Barwell sends a message, but Badenoch should go much further

Andy Burnham must get a grip on spending rather than squeezing the taxpayer

The end of in-person examinations would be the end of rational assessment

As they have grown more successful, Nigel Farage and his men have lost sight of what it takes to succeed

The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions

Tom Rolt, whose rescue of the Talyllyn Railway provided a model of how we can stand up to the homogenistion of our culture

The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security

Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds

Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy

Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?

The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors

Britain’s answer to America’s biggest conservative gathering offered empty seats, familiar grievances and a vision of the country that exists largely in the imagination.

Baudrillard warned that politics would become a world of signs detached from reality. Manchesterism suggests he was right.

For the best in Europe, learn how to travel like a rich native

Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity

When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?

Whistler by Ann Patchett; The Smiths: A Novella by Michael
Bracewell; Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai

Exposed: The Rise of Extreme Porn and How We Fight Back by Clare McGlynn

Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy

Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List

Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production

I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden

There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning

Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley

Cool soups for hot days

Summer calls for cold cucumbers

In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life