The ghosts of Norwich
The callous destruction of an ancient city in the name of efficiency, modernity and a failed utopian vision of “the Good Life”
France’s unspoken, unfinished civil war
France’s cycle of social unrest and politically polarised elections has its roots in the Algerian conflict and the ensuing unresolved struggle for the soul of the nation
Don’t let the bookies’ cry for freedom fool you
Desperate to win Conservative hearts and minds, the gambling industry is pulling the cheapest trick in the book
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
