Josh Hawley
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance