English Culture
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Why Essex is Britain’s most right-wing county
Essex is both traditionalist and highly entrepreneurial
Lessons for restoration from the Wiltshire wilderness
We must reacquiant ourselves with the spirit of English history
Farewell to a cricket legend
Harold “Dickie” Bird lived with infectious enthusiasm
The lion roars
There were grounds for optimism about the future of England in Westminster this week
Why the Venerable Bede should be England’s patron saint
He did much to form our culture, unlike the elusive St George
English Heritage contra English heritage?
A noble institution should not compromise its mission for the sake of modish inclusivity
Bring back the song-and-dance men
The brilliance of an overlooked generation of 18th century English music makers
Walking the wild side of Merrie England
Revived folk customs are proud expressions of local identity and communal cohesion
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal