Christmas Present
Jotting and plotting
Real gardeners need to keep a journal
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
