British culture
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
Sadistic austerity
All that seems to unite us is miserliness
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Russian to judgement
Russia watchers are the real useful idiots
Waugh at war
Self-sacrifice, tradition and service seem to have been cast aside by today’s society
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Sheikhs on a train
Patronising foreign people, and other progressive trends
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Live and let live
Labour must resist the urge to kick field sports
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
