On Wine
Keeping it in the family
Christopher Pincher on Michael Fabricant and those who require vineyards to be family-owned
Andean myth buster
Don’t listen to the critics. When it comes to wine the new world produces some real works of art
Cupboard love affair
An MP sorts through the collection of wines gathering dust in the office cupboard
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians