Artillery Row
A chronic case of mask fever
Masking in medical contexts represents the triumph of culture over science
Russian Orthodoxy on trial
Symphonia or caesaropapism?
Sacred memory
Brits have lost the habits of respect and reverence
Proud to be free?
Liberal Britain’s new blasphemy laws
The Tories haven’t a prayer
Secularism seems to grip the party that was once the embodiment of Anglicanism
Sibelius: 7 symphonies and Tapiola (Decca)
A fresh, ambitious and daring approach to the familiar Finn
How Blair won over Conservative Britain
Like Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair won big in enemy territory. Can Starmer do the same?
New Labour, new danger?
25 years on from the 1997 election
Joining the dots on sexism
Parliament’s creepy sexualised culture resurrects throwback stereotypes
Keir the Coaster
The Labour Party’s craven leadership will leave the electorate guessing when voting starts
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history