Book Review
The mercurial master of magic and misery
If Dickens was a unique enchanter, Conrad is a charmingly bewitched conjurer of his genius
Glorious things
This addition to the literature on monuments and commemoration is very welcome
Deconstructing the architecture of cancel culture
The censorious impulse is degrading intellectual discourse on both sides of the Atlantic
Young man — there’s a place you can go …
Everything changes in the end and not always for the better
WEIRD but really not that wonderful
The success of the West has been seized upon by the rationalist right but is riddled with gaps and discrepancies
Keeping the faith
It is as if Aquinas himself occupied the timeless eternity he reserved for God
Holy wars and unlikely alliances
The Crusades were not a straightforward clash of civilisations: both sides were too internally divided
The cottage in the country
The English cottage in the national consciousness
The Saad facts
A spirited but disappointing screed against wokeness
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
Most Read
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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
British foreign policy must serve British interests
It is time to put aside legalistic and moralistic nonsense and focus on what is best for Britain
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Murders for March
Stirring dull roots with spring blood
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Exiles from the Rainbow nation
Race, land and why white South Africans are leaving their homes behind
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests