King’s College Cambridge
Simon Raven
A controversial writer who could produce work as splendid as it was scurrilous
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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
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation