Barbara Pym
The ascent of Barbara Pym
A chronicler of the overlooked, she has at last got her just literary deserts
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful