Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
A Royal good time
Racing brings the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy
Heaven scent
Harrods is no help in the quest for Raffouche
Walk tall in these shoes
If you buy the best kit, it will last much longer
Steering clear of titfer tat
We now are seeing the first flowering of a head-dress renaissance
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Worldviews apart
There are disturbing differences between how British Muslims and non-Muslims see the world
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing