Artillery Row

The 300 Years’ War

How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland

The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”

Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators

Ministry of Silly Thoughts

Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people

Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?

It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex

Inflation and inflated expectations

To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation

Tierless? (Starmer’s version)

Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits

Graduation blues

On the sad decline of the British university

The personal has become far too political

Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics

Worthy instrument

York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)

Tory Utopias

1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism