The BLM takeover of Whitehall
Why don’t ministers care about the politics of their civil servants?
Overarching view of the air war
These two volumes are a solid starting point for understanding the British and Commonwealth air war
How Britain really eats
Lisa Hilton enjoys a Thai feast that shows that fiery and exotic has now become mainstream
Arrest the chest
The danger of endorsing extreme gender ideology
Thai feasts, muscular unionists and literary panjandrums
The Critic Narrated: Episode Four, with Lisa Hilton, Henry Hill and our Secret Author
Clubbing after Covid
The meek may inherit the Earth, but not yet
Wake up and smell the free country
Chris Bryant’s absurd rhetoric deepens cultural divisions in one of the most tolerant countries on earth
An Enlightenment king vindicated
Andrew Roberts dispels the myths and sticks to the facts about George III
Happily devoid of consequences
The Beano magazine retains its quality but not all its character over the decades
The emperors’ new clothes
Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves
WD-Govey: the tool for every job
The man with a thousand uses is deployed to sort out the cladding scandal
Woke: the oldest profession
The modern hegemony of the “liberal professions” has become one of the principal challenges to liberal democracy