Augustine of Hippo
In praise of conversion
Like LGBT campaigners Augustine of Hippo found conversion to be an unbearable assault on his identity
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
