Burns Night
Crashed and Burnsed
ASH Smyth gives a poetically bad speech at the Galle Literary Festival for the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka
As flies to wanton boys
Gambling with human lives is just another day in the lives of the one per cent
Are we suffering from generational sink?
How can the young find meaning and coherence in the future?
The government is failing Northern Ireland
Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Britons need real ownership, not feudal leaseholds
We should shake up an outdated and restrictive system that offers a simulation of property ownership
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
Wetherspoons is the heart of local Britain
Tim Martin deserves a knighthood for creating a triumph for real British society
Should there be set texts for MPs?
Establishment ignorance of the texts we should be governed by is endangering the United Kingdom
The imagination of Ensor
The great Belgian painter could enliven the most mundane scenes
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret