George Miller: Anti-Communist
30 years on from the Moscow Coup, Gerald Frost remembers the man bent on bringing down the Soviet Union
Alfred Sherman: the original Downing Street maverick
The rise and fall of Dominic Cummings recalls the role of another eccentric who changed British politics
Memoir of a troubled woman
Friends and Enemies by Barbara Amiel is an extraordinary work of self-revelation
Farewell to Utopia
An erudite call to return to a more sceptical and prudential kind of politics
When it’s great to be British
The country of understatement and the stiff upper lip responds well in a crisis
Know your Catalan onions
Gerald Frost reviews Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity by Venetia Johannes
Journal de combat of the Cold War
Encounter’s cultural importance far outweighed doubts about its shadowy funding
Conspiracies against the left
There are no new problems in the New Left, only old solutions in fighting them
Scruton’s Danubian overtures
Sir Roger Scruton: A classical composer and inspiration to Hungarian students
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
