Jessica Douglas-Home
Jessica Douglas-Home is the author of William Simmonds: The Silent Heart of the Arts and Crafts Movement (Unicorn).
A grand old Duke
The Duke of Kent’s life has been little-known — until now
When in Romania…
This book will be valuable as much for Eastern Europe specialists as for the general reader
The secret university
Jessica Douglas-Home recalls Roger Scruton’s risky but crucial work with dissident intellectuals in the Eastern Bloc
Evolution of a master
Davey’s selection has given us a deeper understanding of the value and practice of drawing
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
