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
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
SEEN should be heard
A new group aims to remind the police to act without fear or favour
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
