The purpose of the university
What will become of a society that continually prioritises efficiency over civilisation?
Margaret Thatcher: Tragic visionary
The Iron Lady had many qualities, but she sowed the seeds of a society she would have hated
A man of Rome, out of Africa
The Bishop of Hippo and his circle brought to full life and colour
The madness of the moderate
The British establishment needs someone with fire in their soul, not just figures in their head
Good America. Bad America
The past is a foreign country, and that country is the USA
A marriage of inconvenience
Islamo-leftism is an unstable compound
Britain has to bet on the future
We urgently need to invest in the young and the new
Twilight of the Tories
The fact that Danny Kruger can no longer find a home in the party is damning
Omens
British politics is entering a new era of danger and possibility
Getting Christianity wrong
Alice Roberts misunderstands Christianity and its success
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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
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma