Columns
Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
The UK’s four nations can be reinvented and flourish
The Anglo-British belief in national self-government could forge a new path
A year to forget, already
Who will stand up to the stupidity of the electorate?
A philosopher of deeds
Roger Scruton was a doer as well as a thinker
Tom’s ghostly debut
X.Trapnel on the latest publishing politics
Purge the puritans
Marcus Walker regrets the new age of joylessness
What will Brexit do?
No control has been taken back. Even if it is, what will be done with it?
Welcome waste land
The marshes, creeks, hulks and hidden beaches of the Thames estuary are thrilling
Greek good news
Budget balancing works — and naive spendthrift Keynesianism doesn’t
Liberalism: a bad idea and how to cope with it
The piecemeal constitutional “reforms” of the last 20 years fall on the liberal side and the results have been predictably disastrous
Remembering George Steiner
Today Arendt is only read by academic cultists – Steiner by the public
A doctor’s rites
Theodore Dalrymple reveals how the choice of words in medical obituaries are important
Bis interimitur qui suis armis perit
It’s not all Greek to Oxford classicists
Fairs and fair dealing
Thomas Woodham-Smith listens with caution
P is for Plum Pudding
Jonathon Green reviews A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
Tapping into history
As soon as you enter Idagio.com you can kiss your working day goodbye