How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
A spy’s afterlife
John le Carré’s work and life still haunt British culture
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Diversion, disruption and distinction
Being memorable and sticky guarantees a novel a long and healthy life
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
Nightmare on Starmer Street?
Bigger government is coming — but there is no avoiding it
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
