Budapest
Our man in Hungary
The past is never very far away in Adam LeBor’s new thriller
Letter from Budapest
Tibor Fischer discovers the first of many Roger Scruton cafés
Hajdúszoboszló on my mind
Tibor Fischer in Budapest muses on Hungary’s fractious political alliance
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument