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A doctor’s rites
Theodore Dalrymple reveals how the choice of words in medical obituaries are important
Terroir to his toes
Christopher Pincher on the warming tones and redcurrant taste of Pernand-Vergelesses Les Fichots
Burgundy bargains
Thomas Woodham-Smith mixes gluttony and business
French with tears
Claudia Savage-Gore bravely faces up to disastrous seven-plus results
Non-nose job
In a free reworking of “Cyrano”, it takes pizzazz to rewrite French alexandrines in the manner of Eminem
The toughest role
The most successful modern actor-director, Clint Eastwood, rejects “the auteur crap”
Of mice and writing advice
Tibor Fischer reviews Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
American idealists in hell
Roland Elliott Brown reviews The Russian Job by Douglas Smith
The unhappy iconoclast of the Right
J. C. D Clark reviews Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by D. W. Hayton
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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
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom