A pair of presidential PMs
Is Boris Johnson reminiscent of Churchill or a very different PM?
Sir Tony embraces the old
The resemblance between woke and the Reformation goes beyond means to content
From Worms to woke
The resemblance between woke and the Reformation goes beyond means to content
Right requires Might
Rules mean nothing without the means to enforce them
Courting disaster
Number 10, as a court, is now more-or-less sui generis
A gap-toothed city
The campaign to put up a statue to Bristol’s greatest benefactor wasn’t about Colston, it was about Bristol
Woke: the oldest profession
The modern hegemony of the “liberal professions” has become one of the principal challenges to liberal democracy
Welcome back to reality, feminists
Wokeness is less an intellectual position and more a form of wish-fulfilment
History hasn’t ended
Francis Fukuyama got it very wrong
Disunited kingdom – and all the better for it
Boris Johnson’s ‘one great indivisible United Kingdom’ is neither one, nor indivisible, nor united
Do not go gently after that bad knight
It’s easy to criticise Blair — and fun, too!
British past or American future?
Aussies have some soul-searching to do this Jubilee
On pretending to have read books
It is an art in itself
Sectarian cinema?
It may not be easy, but multicultural societies must embrace liberal values if they are to survive
Britain’s constitutional knowledge crisis
Rory Stewart’s ignorance smells of Remainer entitlement
Stirring the melting pot
Ethnicity pay gap reporting is a terrible idea, so why won’t it go away?
Wakefield and the revival of Labour Britain
After an electoral disaster in the 1930s, Wakefield kickstarted the new Labour era. Can it do the same for Starmer?
Inclusion isn’t a dirty word
Conservatism is the really inclusive worldview, because it offers us rules to live by
Reinvention and rediscoveries
An actress turned author, a Kafkaesque fantasy and a 1960s re-release stir the imagination
The uses and abuses of nostalgia
The old like to think they had it harder, but secretly feel they had it better, too
Dedication’s what you need
Down with the gratitude-bloat of authors’ endless lists of acknowledgements