Artillery Row
C. L. R. James and the majesty of cricket
The West Indian writer and historian knew that cricket is far more than merely a sport
Crowning glory?
The coronation came and went far too quickly
Misappropriating motherhood
La Leche League and the pornification of breastfeeding
Can we balance re-enchantment and reality?
We should not throw out the civilisational baby with the consumerist bathwater
Failing universities
What has gone wrong in British higher education?
The new Scotland
Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
Jane Austen versus virtue signalling
What Mansfield Park can tell us about contemporary politics
Murders for May
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
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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
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works