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Eurovision Highs and Eurovision Woes
It’s all good fun, and remember folks — it’s DEFINITELY not political
Anglicising National Conservatism
Britain faces grave and specific challenges
An unreviewable album
The music is beautiful; the context is not
Are you not entertained?
The emptiness of popular culture
OK Doomer
Why Spengler still matters
The rich and varied past of our islands
Romans, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Norwegians all made their marks
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?
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
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
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up