Auberon Waugh
Quaffing the cup that cheers
Readers should savour this book, as you might one of the delectable bottles that compose the enticing strophe of the book’s narrative
Nicholas Parsons vs Auberon Waugh
How Parsons won a battle of wits
A keen nose and sharp prose
David Womersley reviews Waugh on Wine by Auberon Waugh
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible