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Jonathan Meades
Jonathan Meades’s next book is Pedro & Ricky Come Again, to be published next year. He lives in Marseille.
Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
Welcome waste land
The marshes, creeks, hulks and hidden beaches of the Thames estuary are thrilling
Good companions
Brigitte Macron agitated to be granted the title of Première Dame, hoping to emulate not Yvonne de Gaulle but Jackie Kennedy
Bedazzling
Nigel Farage takes centre stage and everyone else is sidelined
Twitter’s doxxing problem
Social media “outings” expose serious lapses in legality and digital morality
Big beasts versus the Bible
Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution
Graham Topman: festival organiser
Roll up, roll up, it’s time for another festival of arts, ideas and Graham (mostly Graham)
The sordid truth about the 68ers?
Some claim the “anything goes” philosophy of the left-wing intelligentsia resulted in sex crimes
Farage bursts the green bubble
Nigel Farage is right about the unrestrained pursuit of Net Zero
Can we balance re-enchantment and reality?
We should not throw out the civilisational baby with the consumerist bathwater
Bloody opposition
The Tories have left Britain in the hands of managers, judges and technocrats