Frank Richards
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised