The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
The culture war is all around you
It is the philosophical water in which we swim
Putin must be mad
…and other lies Western elites tell themselves
The devil is in the detail
The assisted suicide bill has practical challenges to answer before it should convince us to start down a dangerous path
In defence of proselytising
We should thank religious nuts for most of the liberal rights we take for granted
Bestiality is worse than eating meat
Tom Chivers is wrong about having sex with animals
Against statelessness
Nationality rights build communities, administrative convenience ticks boxes
The language of Conservative priorities
Why does Boris want marriage to be a contract-at-will?
A certain modesty for numbers men
Hard problems don’t make behavioural science a hard science
Our ideology in the North
Is there such a thing as social neoconservatism?
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Campus confidential
Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Fear the Keir
Starmer is Blair 2.0 — but this time, things can only get worse
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
