Chartwell
We can’t trust the National Trust’s history
How on earth did the National Trust hire a non-historian to do an historian’s job?
Is the National Trust losing the nation’s trust?
If the National Trust is tired of promoting “heritage” what can be done to remind it of its purpose?
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
