Englishness
The revival of England
Multicultural anxieties have contributed to the resurrection of a deeper Englishness
The myths of upper normie civic nationalism
Folk beliefs of the upper normie #1
What does it mean to be English?
Questions about ethnicity and identity cannot be huffed and puffed away
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive