John Vanbrugh
An elegant advocate for Van the man
John Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture by Charles Saumarez Smith
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests