Benedict Cumberbatch
Running scared of religion
Shelley’s story prompts us to consider the relationship between The Almighty and man
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself