Books
Who are the household names now?
Cultural fragmentation has led to a decline in shared knowledge
The tragedy of Mark Field
This is a book with an identity crisis to match that of the Conservatives
Publishing’s heyday
The world of publishing as Cheetham knows it is vanishing
A mysterious garden
A new book offers interesting insights into the neglected subject of fraternal societies
It’s the phones, stupid
How can we help books to compete with YouTube and Instagram?
How I was hounded out of publishing
A culture of groupthink and ostracisation must be challenged
Glorious things
This addition to the literature on monuments and commemoration is very welcome
Dark clouds
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The disappeared and the damned
A reflection on Roger Scruton’s neglected “grooming gangs” novel
The cottage in the country
The English cottage in the national consciousness
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project