Artillery Row
Boris’s pudding without a theme
The Prime Minister made a muddled start to the election campaign
Snapshot of the PM who killed his party
History is a wonderful guide to political practice in the present, just so long as nothing is different
Ethnic identity is fine, as long as you’re not English
In the corridors of power, every ethnic grievance is welcome — except for the concerns of the English
The British family is nuclear powered
Sorry, post-liberals, but in Britain communitarianism is not traditional
Waugh at war
Self-sacrifice, tradition and service seem to have been cast aside by today’s society
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
We need to protect our digital rights
The curbing of dissident speech online should be opposed
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance