Bénédicte Savoy
To have, to hold — and to create
Beauty isn’t merely to be owned, but is something to be loved and passed on
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Why ministers fail
Even the more effective politicians do not have time to achieve anything
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world