Chain Restaurant
Creeping mediocrity
A dismal lunch at a chain restaurant woefully short of theatreland glamour
Anyone for Woolton pie?
Enduring a taste of the Blitz spirit at a chain restaurant with no butter, no jam and few staff
Money troubles
At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Up with expertise, down with experts
Politicians should be informed by experts but not led by them
Will Labour build back better?
The most conspicuous monuments of the last decade are the vast online shopping warehouses
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The West is weak
The Russian-American prisoner exchange sends a catastrophic message of Western frailty
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
