Tacsi for a moribund language
Why condemn a million Welsh people to a parochial linguistic straitjacket?
The road to Book Pyre Beacon
The cult of Woke has old roots, deep in the mulch of evangelical intolerance
Le Pétain nouveau
France should look across the Channel before electing a journalist as president
Guru of regurgitation
Time for self-styled “design guru” Stephen Bayley to move on from his erstwhile mentor, monstrous Sir Tel
Storm in a frying pan
The row over sending great British bangers to Bangor illustrates a dismal lack of gastronomic culture
The regeneration game
A hideous babel of gimmicky buildings that scream: “Me! Me! Me!”
Call the junk-monger
The trashy Downing Street makeover is a criminal act of hideous uglification
Opiate of the masses
TV has become a branch of the pharmaceutical industry doling out heavy sedatives
Sex and the singular fisherman
Pike abound in British rivers yet are seldom caught for the table
Short cut to a Mob takeover
Today the multiply-tattooed Balkan war criminal look is popular
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
