Features
How to drink port without the storm
There is nothing more agreeable than a glass or two of fine vintage port at Christmas. As long as it agrees with us!
Weighing up the real value of art
Why galleries are now cogs in a not-so-creative industry
All sweetness and light
Two hundred years after his birth, critic and poet Matthew Arnold still has much to teach conservatives
A world fit for humans
Both the internet and our real-world shared spaces must be improved
Ideology or therapy?
Trainee psychologists are being taught harmful dogma and are encouraged to abandon evidence-based treatment in the name of Critical Race Theory
Carry Ons: Phwoar! What a lovely set of hits
Grim, funny glimpses of a Britain in decline
Failing to see the woods for the trees
There is little wonder the Government is falling so dismally short of its tree-planting targets
The lockdown bonfire of Britain’s freedoms
The Government’s chaotic handling of the Covid-19 crisis resulted in an arbitrary rule by diktat of dubious legitimacy that should never be repeated
Why Germany mourned our British queen
While few Germans lament the loss of their own emperors and kings, they admire the British idea of monarchy
Upper-class darling of the metropolitan elite
Harriet Harman’s drive for equal rights has resulted in the divisive identity politics that so alienates traditional working-class Labour voters