The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
What happened to literary politicians?
The decline of literary statespeople is a symptom of the decline of politics
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes