Issue: July 2023
On the passing of the great generation
In memoriam Simon Preston CBE, ob. 13.V.2022 & James Bowman CBE, ob. 27.III.2023
Queen of the road
For a quarter of a century, not one British woman could surpass her
Celestria Parfit
Culture could not survive without such austere archivists
On the radar
A fresh telling of a largely forgotten slice of wartime history
The colourful world of English winemakers
Henry Jeffreys on the tyros who made English wine world class
Same beach, same sea
Rainy beaches and protests in Venice, and dance and sunshine in the South Downs as Britain and Italy trade places
Birthday bash
Claudia Savage-Gore frets over how best to entertain a troop of 10-year-olds
Mr (or Mrs) 15 per cent
The best agents are unobtrusive and make sure attention is focused on their writers
Those golden years
Ultimately it’s the music that brings to each of us our personal Bowie
Twists of the tongue
When competing languages collide, demography eventually supersedes prestige
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
One small step for Jenrick…
…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride
