Hector Drummond
Hector Drummond is a novelist, and the author of Days of Wine and Cheese (Vol. I of his campus-based series The Biscuit Factory). He was previously an academic, and now tweets at @hector_drummond
This is what we amputated a limb for
A long-term historical perspective on Covid-19
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
