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
Religion is here to stay
A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
