Channel Islands
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
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,