Epidemiologyiology
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Should there be set texts for MPs?
Establishment ignorance of the texts we should be governed by is endangering the United Kingdom
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?