Inn decline
There is an iconoclastic assault on the British pub — we need a campaign for real inn signs
The King is our eternal everyman
Oak Apple Day celebrates the inevitable return of the primordial and the perennial
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life