Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Prince
Is he simply a desperate chancer, or a genuine threat to British interests?
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
