Artillery Row
How I used to love and now hate the London Review of Books
Speaking words of wisdom, LRB
“Thank you, ma’am, for everything”
On the death of Queen Elizabeth II
In the shadow of the crown
The inefficient paid tribute to the dignified
John Nash is overrated
Against neat-freak planning
France and the Queen
A sense of what was lost
Long to have reigned over us
For 70 years Queen Elizabeth II brought dignity and grace to public life
God save the Queen
Britain will never be the same
East Germany — the illusion of Communist prosperity
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the smoke and mirrors that obscured the reality of a failing East Germany
There’s truth in the toilet
Britain’s sewage problem requires a Victorian solution
Christians are being jailed in Iran
Religious persecution is growing more severe
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone