King Athelstan
Lessons from King Athelstan
We should do more to remember a titan of English history
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness