Etiquette
Hand to mouth
Delicacy, of unknown origins, makes us reluctant to pull plums with our thumbs
Where are the real statesmen?
Neither populists nor managerialists can rule
Please look after this bear
A bedraggled Rishi Sunak chases the pity vote
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
Socialism with Starmerite characteristics
The coming-out party of the Labour moderates had distinctly totalitarian vibes
Spring fever
Disinformation journalism circles the drain
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
