Great British
The enduring Commonwealth
The rise and fall (and rise?) of the Commonwealth club
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Struggles of a veteran matador
Familiarity can make the heart grow cooler, but greatness can still prevail
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
A stern telling-off
Rachel Reeves has had enough of these misbehaving Tories
“Moral debt” is classic watermelon politics
Do left-wing economists believe that there is anything to which wealth redistribution is not the answer?
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
The “shameless disrespect” of Judith Butler
The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions
