Daniel Barnes
Daniel Barnes is an American expat trying to make sense of the world through history, religion and a little melodrama.
This isn’t about me
Who? Me? A future Conservative Party leader? Well, if you say so…
Well-behaved Beethoven
Beethoven: Triple concerto and British folksongs (Decca)
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
Exeter — portrait of a modern university
Jeremy Black, historian of Exeter University, reflects on the shifting demands and priorities on campus.
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
“Moral debt” is classic watermelon politics
Do left-wing economists believe that there is anything to which wealth redistribution is not the answer?
The problem with Nigel Farage
The maverick Reform leader might be entertaining, but he is also unreliable
Stop pampering the left’s attack dog
Hope not Hate are not a reliable judge of what constitutes dangerous extremism