Rupert Smith
Rupert Smith is a well known writer who lives on the US east coast but regularly visits the UK. His name has been changed to protect the guilty.
You’re getting the lockdown you deserve
The only remaining options for the UK are lockdowns or doing nothing at all
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
The West is weak
The Russian-American prisoner exchange sends a catastrophic message of Western frailty
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art