British culture
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
See it. Say it. Sod off!
Against the naggy state
Against Anglophobia
The English should stop sucking up to people who dislike them
Building for eternity
Earlier generations of Britons built for the next generation –– but we’re stuck in a selfish present
Going underground
The everyday misery of modern British life
Selling the jewels
Auntie has gone mad and is auctioning off the family silver
The failure of normative power
You can’t always legislate around disagreement
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Why are we ignoring the slaughter in Sudan?
There is no excuse for indifference when we pay such close attention to other wars
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
