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
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
Eighteen questions for Kim Leadbeater
Questions that all MPs should be asking
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
