Hygiene
How soap helped civilisation to survive
It subdued one of our most dangerous enemies: germs
There’s truth in the toilet
Britain’s sewage problem requires a Victorian solution
How cinemas can save themselves
Watching films at the cinema should be a communal experience
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
You can’t beat the left at its own game
Conservative attempts to reverse leftist victimology are doomed to fail
A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate
Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”
Bedazzling
Nigel Farage takes centre stage and everyone else is sidelined
Trumped up charges
Trump’s guilty verdict is a catastrophe for American public life
Why there has been no Street life
G.E. Street built or restored 113 churches for the Oxford diocese alone
Mass confusion
The Conservative elites are no match for superheroines like Greta Thunberg and Charlotte Proudman
The sincere insincerity of centrism
Politicians cannot but seem like they’re lying even when they genuinely aren’t lying
Bad education
Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong
How ideology threatens to corrupt science
Ideological censorship in science is antithetical to its purpose and its methods