Burns Night
Crashed and Burnsed
ASH Smyth gives a poetically bad speech at the Galle Literary Festival for the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing