Christopher Fildes
Christopher Fildes is a veteran observer of the City of London, and writes on finance and public policy, past and present. He has twice received the Wincott Award, regarded as the senior award for financial journalism.
A bank, not a study group
Christopher Fildes delves into the latest instalment of the Bank’s long and voluminous history
Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind