James Stevens Curl
A transcendent life
James Stevens Curl’s 2018 demolition of the Modernist experiment signalled the return to high culture
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes