If
‘You’ll be a Man, my son!’
Rudyard Kipling’s (in)famous poem “If” reverberates with valuably relevant and humane advice for 2020 Britain
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
