The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The rise and fall of assimilation
On last century’s chimera of a universal civilisation
When modern art crossed the Channel
How British culture belatedly embraced radical modernism
The Anglo-Dutch moment and its consequences
The English and the Dutch owe more to each other than they realise
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
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
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose