The beauty and the bomb
Barbenheimer is a true cinematic event
Cambridge in decline?
Censorious tendencies have not conquered the university yet
How Evelyn Waugh saved the English country house
The improbable democratisation of an aristocratic institution
Degrading Dickens
How the BBC lowered expectations
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another