The shadows of Christmas
Why M.R. James is the real spirit of the season
Cosmopolis lost
The Erasmus scheme is the legacy of a lost Europe
The shame of Britain
The establishment has failed Britain — and now we are failing Britain too
Broken bonds
Can Britain’s social safety net be rewoven?
Labour: a party of nostalgics
It’s difficult to imagine Keir Starmer’s government ever recovering from this disastrous year
False faiths
The digital worship of the autonomous self is a dangerous and self-defeating creed
The folly of turning our backs to the sea
Britain’s neglect of its maritime heritage has left many coastal towns impoverished
Britain, remembered
Remembrance risks becomes a state ritual for an untrusted and despised establishment
Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules are smothering the state
There is a great deal of ruin in a nation — but how much is left in the UK?
The British monarchy has never been more secure
It is the least unpopular and controversial element of the establishment
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad