John Wycliffe
The Trans troubles of the Middle Ages
The great scholars of the Middle Ages had their own word for Trans
The University: The idea and how to destroy it
Fourteenth-century Oxford University offers today’s Woke some lessons in cancel culture
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers