Antique Fairs
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic