Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
The countercultural island within conservative Hungary
A dispatch from Sziget Festival
Land of his birth
Little of the Hungarian aristocrats’ world remains, except a few crumbling buildings — and Count Bánffy’s stories
Memoirs of a Microaggressor
Will Collins traces the aristocratic roots of the social justice warriors’ search for purity
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories