Artillery Row
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
The savage triumph
End Game 1944: How Stalin Won the War. By Jonathan Dimbleby
The sincere insincerity of centrism
Politicians cannot but seem like they’re lying even when they genuinely aren’t lying
World Government or Peoples’ Governments?
As the nation state system falters, we are faced with a choice between centre and periphery
Walking a tightrope
It is not easy for Jeremy Hunt to toe the government line without falling off
The final death of left v. right?
Old political categories are losing their value
British broadcasting capitulation
Editorial standards have been thrown out, and anti-white discrimination embraced at the BBC
From Balfour to Sunak
Remembering a previous prime ministerial humiliation
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
Racing’s shame
British racing should have nothing to do with Sheikh Mohammed
