2024 US Election
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
The virtues of complaint
There’s nothing anti-feminist about female complaint
Defend Christian private schools
Keir Starmer’s tax raid would be bad for children, parents and the state
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate
Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
No room for reform?
We should hope that even the worst people can change
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
