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How to deface a national treasure
Once lauded as one of the most charming historic cities in England, Cambridge is being ruined by architectural monstrosities and ill-thought-out traffic schemes
Who even is “working class”?
Keir Starmer loves the term, but its substance is hard to define
The myth of the emotionally unstable populist voter
It’s time that smug pseudo-centrists had more humility
Dressing well is good for the soul
Against the tyranny of scruffiness
Rickards remembered
A fine tribute to an industrious architectural eccentric
On international law
International law is often far less clear than it might sound
When Irish eyes aren’t smiling
Irish Gothic and Noel Coward romance on the stage, and remembering actress Hayden Gywnne
Christianity can only save Western Civilisation if it is true
Christ can transform lives in ways that institutions never can
Music of hypnotic power
Thomas Larcher: The Living Mountain (ECM New Series)
Whose rule of law?
The European Union refuses to call out democratic backsliding when orchestrated by the left
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
In defence of Elon Musk
Open debate might be messy but it is essential
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
