Basil Fawlty
“Will you stop talking about the war!”
Are we watching a Stalinist show trial, with hitherto dissident figures loudly recanting any support for past regimes?
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
