British culture
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
Is Britain ungovernable?
Our lack of a shared political identity makes it impossible to govern for everyone
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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
Asset-stripping on campus?
Selling universities to private companies risks destroying their charitable purpose
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?