British culture
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
London has lost its soul
National renewal must start with the capital
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
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
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up