England
Young Winston: seizing the day
The life before his and our finest hour
What does it mean to be English?
Questions about ethnicity and identity cannot be huffed and puffed away
The Anglo-Dutch moment and its consequences
The English and the Dutch owe more to each other than they realise
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
London has lost its soul
National renewal must start with the capital
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
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
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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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
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt