Don’t mention the war
A rosy-hued invocation of the Blitz spirit was a hopelessly misguided metaphor for the Covid pandemic
Hard Labour
Industrial scale drinking, courting communists and winning the “Golden Bollock”
Broken eggs, no omelette
Baroness Williams believed until she died that comprehensive schools fostered equality. Her folly has only entrenched class privilege
Democracy muzzled
Peter Hitchens says Covid masks are a potent symbol of the West’s headlong flight from Enlightenment values
Remember them more honestly
We should change the way we commemorate our war dead
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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
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller