Gothic Literature
The lovelorn lady who broke the rules
A romantic forced by peculiar privilege into perpetual masquerade
The monster that lurks within us
The enduring popularity of fantasy and horror fiction proves that we still live in the long, dark shadow of the Gothic novel
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world