Castles
Normandy’s English connection
The region combines ancient and modern splendours with an eye turned ever northwards
The Fortified Palace
Professor Jeremy Black talks about the fortified palaces and manor houses of the sixteenth century
The ultimate luxury
Clive Aslet says the Barclay brothers were prescient when they built their grand private castle on Brecqhou. Today, true privacy is something only serious money can buy
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal