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Murders for May
Fraud, suspicion and old-school detective work
Music fit for a king
The cliché of Britain as “the land without music” was disproved
Why I am a Liberal National Conservative
Neutrality and balance have not yet been tried
Toryism à la mode
Could the legacy of French Gaullism breathe life into a listless British conservatism?
Is the public simply pro-choice?
Public opinion is more nuanced than you might think
Why National Conservatism matters
It might not have solutions, but it has a chance to reach for them
Who took the SO out of SOGI?
The UN bumbles on gender identity
The inquiry industrial complex
What, if anything, do our investigations accomplish?
Lessons of The Jetsons
The economic future foretold by the 1960s cartoon could hardly have been wider of the mark
Natural goodness
Rewilding projects will never grow enough to feed the nation. A new model of nature-friendly farming is a better solution
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
