England
Dreams turning to ashes
What’s the point of watching sport if not to harbour fantasies?
Lyrical wormholes into the past
A powerful evangelist for poetry, without a coherent proposition about English identity
Lessons for restoration from the Wiltshire wilderness
We must reacquiant ourselves with the spirit of English history
The revival of England
Multicultural anxieties have contributed to the resurrection of a deeper Englishness
The cross language of flags
Progressives are missing an opportunity to prove that they value inclusion
The lion roars
There were grounds for optimism about the future of England in Westminster this week
And that will be England gone
The online age may see the permanent destruction of something very special
Why the Venerable Bede should be England’s patron saint
He did much to form our culture, unlike the elusive St George
The rise and rise of “The UK”
How England and Britain fell victim to Yookayification
English Heritage contra English heritage?
A noble institution should not compromise its mission for the sake of modish inclusivity
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato