Books
The cottage in the country
The English cottage in the national consciousness
The Saad facts
A spirited but disappointing screed against wokeness
The year in military history
2024 has been a rewarding year for lovers of books and history
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water