England
Inn decline
There is an iconoclastic assault on the British pub — we need a campaign for real inn signs
An Ashes autopsy
C’est magnifique, mais
The ghosts of Norwich
The callous destruction of an ancient city in the name of efficiency, modernity and a failed utopian vision of “the Good Life”
The making of a multi-national state
What the Scots and Irish brought to Westminster
Christianity’s dying passion
England would miss the faith if it disappeared
What church for what England?
The difficult future of the C of E
The ascent of Barbara Pym
A chronicler of the overlooked, she has at last got her just literary deserts
Reason’s misrule
The revival of Jerusalem reminds us of a still-forgotten England
I miss the Simon Ravens
Twinkly-eyed twentieth century mischief makers have crashed out of fashion
The renewal of Englishness
Journalist Jason Cowley builds a national identity from an excavation of incidents
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Doublespeak about assisted suicide
The campaign for assisted suicide is distinctly Orwellian
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
