The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
One small step for Jenrick…
…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
