Anti-Fascism
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
Night of the ghost fascism
If a far right protest is rumoured but no one turns up, can it be counter-protested?
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?