British Politics
No excuses for the Right
There is a way, if there is will
The post-liberal trap
The new communitarianism looks suspiciously like what we have already
Why are British politicians such utter bores?
Mediocre people for mediocre times
Not doing God
The political perils of secularisation
Beware the crisis crisis
Constant catastrophism is destroying our brains
Housing hypocrisy
The mainstream parties are betraying the aspirations of young people
Back to the 70s? If only…
Britain is in far worse trouble than we were 40 years ago
The closing of the Episcopal mind
The Church of England’s leaders don’t reflect its political diversity
Is the Union breaking up?
Nationalist parties have a vested interest in falling short of independence
England has left Covid behind
But other countries are not so lucky
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
The central myth of Conservative centrism
The Conservatives are not suffering because they are too right-wing
