Why Trump is good for Europe
He will force our leaders to be more realistic
Into the Boomerverse
Older commentators cannot understand how younger people experience the UK
We need zero tolerance for Islamism
Political Islam is ruining any prospects for integration
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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves