Ancient Rome
Fake news, Roman edition
Twisted tales are as old as time
Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit
A classicist in No 10: Boris and his worldview
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill