The goose and the golden egg
The City of London Corporation arguably survives for one reason only: money
The blunders that restored the Crown
The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece
Regency romance
Small human moments cut across the centuries
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
Half a century of the World at War
It was then the most expensive documentary ever made and, many think,the greatest
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature