Diaries
A chip on his shoulder
The diaries of Chips Channon
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
Perceptive, witty and sure of himself
Beyond the embellishments of Alan Duncan’s private diaries lies a body of work making serious points about the role of parliament
World-class snob, first-class diarist
Andrew Roberts says that in these diaries, Channon takes snobbery to a truly pathological level
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
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
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
