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Reclaiming Becket
London’s great saint needs a reboot
2+2 doesn’t equal 5
What is truth?
America’s Popish Plot
The maze of lunacy surrounding one of the USA’s most outlandish conspiracy theories
Britten, Hindemith, RVW, Martinu (Claves)
The 1934 suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams demands a sympathy for the rolling contours of the English countryside
An economic warning to the curious
There are no good British lessons from higher European taxes
The perils of false victimhood
The Critic and Policy Exchange think right-wing academics are being censored. They’re wrong
Gordon’s (Still) Alive: Flash Gordon at 40
Remembering the cult-classic science-fiction romp
Letter from Washington: Kamala Harris and the meaning of ‘moderate’
What the views of Biden’s VP pick say about America
Ongoing lessons from the Battle of Warsaw
After the Miracle at the Vistula, a Miracle at the Oder?
The grandeur and instability of Spain
The rise and fall of the Spanish Empire
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
It’s time to ban the Brotherhood
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General