Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
McCarthyism, Cancel Culture and the new woke agenda
J. C. D. Clark reveals how Alan Dershowitz’s book is a nostalgic defence of the ‘American dream’ and of American exceptionalism
Derailing the gravy train
The question of human rights, Christian morals and Western ethics has hitherto been an academic debate; now it is in the public arena
Mapping the Blob
The Long March draws together evidence that we half knew but shied away from
Learning from History
Despite Coronavirus, some things will never change
Why they rebel…
J. C. D. Clark delves into Extinction Rebellion’s new pamphlet in search of something more
The unhappy iconoclast of the Right
J. C. D Clark reviews Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by D. W. Hayton
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
