Margaret Willes
Margaret Willes’s most recent book is The Curious World of Samuel Pepys & John Evelyn (Yale University Press).
A thoughtful old-fashioned rambler
George Orwell’s gardening prowess comes as a surprise
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
