Laughing laureate of Western decline
Michel Houellebecq’s prescient, mocking critiques of our debased modern world
The Polish Government’s animal welfare plans have created a political crisis
Poland votes to ban fur farming and ritual slaughter
Blame the Critic
Whose fault is acting essentialism?
A fistful of Gandhis
The condescending contrivances of diversified dosh
Saying racists are racist is better than more silence
Twitter bans and self-denying ordinances won’t erase anti-semitism
Less is more
Higher Education maintains an elevated status because little respect is given to alternatives
Germany’s Red Army Faction
Ominous parallels between 1970s West Germany and Britain today
Why do conservatives think they are winning?
The right needs to understand that progressive intolerance is a strength, not a weakness
Greater Polish representation with subverted expectations
Ben Sixsmith reviews My Friend the Polish Girl
Letter from Washington: The Trumpism-without-Trump candidate
J.D. Vance thinks the MAGA movement is about more than the man
“Billary” and Me
David Smith recalls his relationship with Bill and Hillary Clinton during his time working as a correspondent The White House
Vienna’s hapless missing link
Zemlinsky’s music is arresting and his ideas fertile and diverse, but he often goes unnoticed
The decline of the quality press
Frequent hyperbole means the media would struggle to describe a genuine disaster
Poor white men and Labour’s identity trap
Survey data backs the Commission for Race and Ethnic Disparities’ finding that Britain is a successful multi-racial society
Institutional amnesia
Central bankers have forgotten the crucial monetary lessons of the past
Classical Dom
Always fighting all the evil forces bringing peace and justice to all
Once a newspaperman
The true legacy of John Kay
You probably don’t have PTSD
The danger of self-diagnosis
The magic of Dawn Chorus
On International Dawn Chorus Day, there really is no sound lovelier than the competing noise of birdsong