Must we mourn a decline in English degrees?
It does not entail the decline of English literature
How to walk around London
It is never just walking
In defence of the Netflix Persuasion
It is a satire of modern vanities, not a screw-up
Is Liz Truss Thatcherite?
She wants to change our circumstances rather than manage them
This is Starmer’s chance
He could be the next Harold Wilson
Truss for Chancellor!
She might not be the best PM but Britain needs her brain
The last jubilee?
Many of us will never live to see a jubilee again — what will sustain the Windsors without spectacle?
There’s more to 1922 than just Woolf, Joyce, and Eliot
We should pay attention to Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim
Bring back Victorian YIMBY-ism
We cling to the buildings our 19th century forebears left behind, but they would decry our squeamishness
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
