Justin Elderman
Justin Elderman writes on the politics of the civil service.
The BLM takeover of Whitehall
Why don’t ministers care about the politics of their civil servants?
Sounds and sweet airs
Classical music is flourishing in Britain — though if you listened to our cultural elite you’d never know it
Children’s mental health crisis
Using our kids to virtue signal adult politics fuels anxiety and depression
The wrong kind of victim
Today’s victimhood narratives don’t make space for the most vulnerable
What is a woman?
Laura Dodsworth interviews Matt Walsh, the man behind the controversial new film on gender
An unlikely man of the people
Kenneth Clark has been unfairly accused of elitism; he wanted to democratise the glories of Western art and make it available to all
Small town radio
Letters from the Falklands front: when broadcasting was a matter of life or death
Such sweet sorrow
Lent is an ideal time to take pleasure in a gentle, contemplative and very English strand of musical melancholia
The battlefield priest
Heroism, compassion and enduring hope: the lost war letters of Canon Laurie