Matthew Walther
Matthew Walther is editor of The Lamp magazine.
The fascist state of Paw Patrol
There is no society or even commerce, just the relentless force of the police
A classic work of unbridled joy
This is the best popular edition ever produced of one of the most amusing books in our language
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
Who killed the Women’s Equality Party?
Taken over and destroyed by men
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub