Clapham Saints
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
The restless life of a very bourgois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
