Columns
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
It’s the money supply, stupid
How the Keynesian blinkers of Democrat economists led to a second Trump victory
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
When real Rivals fought over TV
The hit adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel reflects the ITV franchise battles
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
The Democratic Party deserves Donald Trump
Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed
Living in the Eighties
An exhibition of photos from a pivotal decade interests and exhausts
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
