Clive Aslet
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?
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions.
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy