Howard Bernstein
Faith in fakes
Baudrillard warned that politics would become a world of signs detached from reality. Manchesterism suggests he was right.
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders