The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
Fear, loathing and revolution
Was Alexis de Tocqueville the first social scientist?
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Doublespeak about assisted suicide
The campaign for assisted suicide is distinctly Orwellian
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
