British culture
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
