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
Games people play
Why team spirit leaves me cold
Good companions
Brigitte Macron agitated to be granted the title of Première Dame, hoping to emulate not Yvonne de Gaulle but Jackie Kennedy
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Sexy simplicity
For February, try a palette cleanse
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
