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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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)
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem