Back to the future
The new Great British Railways should abolish the garish sweet shop designs of today’s trains and look to the glorious liveries of the past
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
Should there be set texts for MPs?
Establishment ignorance of the texts we should be governed by is endangering the United Kingdom
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
The reality of tobacco control
To have a law does not mean that it will be respected
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
