Britishness
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
The matter of Britain
Britain must rediscover its stories and dreams
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Centre for a vassal state
Why is a think tank dedicated to “Inclusive Trade” trying to tie the UK to EU imports?
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
