Gulliver’s travails
Gekoski focuses the protagonist’s nightmarish vilification around the career and writings of Jonathan Swift
Vintage volume: The Story of Wine
The story of wine is a glorious story which illuminates the topics of more conventional histories
Shakespearean lore and order
A new anthology displays Shakespeare’s engagement with the sonnet form across his career, but at a high cost
Vinous Valhalla
David Womersley reveres Roger Scruton on wine
A keen nose and sharp prose
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Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
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The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive