Conferences
Block votes and nutters
There was a time when the Labour conference really mattered, before it became a stage-managed platform for social media hits and soundbites
Loving the countryside
Its future must be rooted in affection
The three circles of hell
Today’s glossy big-city party conferences are even more nightmarish than the traditional grim trips to run-down seaside resorts
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre