U-turn off a cliff
The only way forward was through
The return of the sacred
The British monarchy is defying secular modernity
God save the Queen
Britain will never be the same
There’s truth in the toilet
Britain’s sewage problem requires a Victorian solution
Biden the populist
Why are so many rightwingers plastic populists?
It’s no kind of night life
Why does Britain turn into a pumpkin around 6pm?
The death of luxury
When did we all decide to stop travelling, and living, in style?
Fiscal fibs
Beware Tories promising tax cuts
Tube strikes aren’t socialist
Why do so many on the Left back poor quality public services?
The strange afterlife of New Atheism
The once dominant internet and media phenomenon has given way to more agile secularisms, but its legacy lives on
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale