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
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
March 2024: Letters to the Editor
Record-setting sons and founding fathers
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
A time for restoration
An interview with David Starkey
