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
The other gender wars
Both men and women should do, and expect, better
Welcome to the Omnistory
Why does one nihilistic narrative dominate all of culture?
Battlegrounds of knowledge
A new conference raises the alarm over academic freedom
John Gray is wrong about postliberalism
A strong and energetic state requires a strong and energetic culture
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless