Pollyannaish study is a missed opportunity
Being Victorian: How it Felt Then, Why it Matters Now by Jamie Camplin
The lanyard class Archbishop
Sarah Mullally is the pure distilled essence of everything wrong with the Church of England
How the first culture war ended
The Whig vs Tory battle was resolved through pragmatism and compromise
On first going to church
The bromides of secular materialism are not enough to explain and justify life
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide