In search of villains
Tech bros may be idealists, but that’s why we should mistrust them
We have failed our children
We must reassess our approach to schools, sex and safeguarding
Deals at any cost
Mauritius and Brussels have seen us coming
The Gospel of Donald
An exclusive look into the Bible according to Trump
Women’s March madness
The London Women’s March was hypocritical and blinkered
How Donald Trump can be a winner
Trump has a great opportunity if he is clear-sighted enough to grasp it
Real postliberalism starts in pubs
The state cannot be the source of community attachments and affection
British in name only
We should question the residency rights of those who fail to integrate
In defence of “stirring up”
The law should target harms and not the potential for harm
British politics needs more history
Despite unprecedented resources, we are failing to learn from the past
Hahn and Gál: Music out of time
Two composers who stuck to their musical roots as the world turned
Cotton ceiling 2.0
Straight men should not be trying to seduce lesbians
The tyranny of brain rot
Obsessive screen use is sending young minds down the Skibidi Toilet
The Bard at Christmas
It is impossible to appreciate Shakespeare without acknowledging his Christian foundations
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
It’s the money supply, stupid
How the Keynesian blinkers of Democrat economists led to a second Trump victory
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
Educashun, Educashun, Educashun
The blob is back, and it wants to dumb down the curriculum
Murders for January
Murder mysteries to brighten the winter gloom
Historiography made exciting
A new book from Richard Davenport-Hines makes history interesting and enjoyable
The Saad facts
A spirited but disappointing screed against wokeness
Living in the Eighties
An exhibition of photos from a pivotal decade interests and exhausts
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
Blazing a trail
Put your neck on the line with these winter picks
An Oxford arriviste
Shades of Brideshead and Saltburn at an unconvincing “classy” Oxford restaurant
A Boxing Day treat
It’s Boxing Day — and that means it’s the King George VI Chase at Kempton
Christmas? My arse!
Seething about Santa, sofagate and the Common effing Entrance
