David Hume
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
For Hume the bell tolls
Civil debate? A miracle
Slaves to bad history
The battle for academic rigour at the home of the Scottish Enlightenment
Break a leg
Woke Oscars tries to cripple the film industry, Stonewall capture the police and the Scottish enlightenment is cancelled
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Settlement disagreements
Shabana Mahmood and the Labour Party are absolutely hopeless on immigration
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem