debut
Pains and pleasures of anticipation
The best sort of debut isn’t actually the author’s first book
Emily D’angelo: A n ar gei a (DG)
This debut album is a treat for the senses and a tonic for tired tastes
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
