The Mumford memory hole
The parallels between the latest incident of cancel culture and George Orwell’s 1984 are uncanny
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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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss