Bertrand Russell
A very British crank
Bertrand Russell is almost too familiar a figure to be worth remembering
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
