Knife Crime
Blacks to slaughter
If black lives really are to matter, we need stronger action against knife crime
An inconvenient truth
Certain crimes are dominated by certain people
Black lives matter
Knife crime is predominantly black on black, so don’t hold the police back
Out with the in-crowd
Barely surving a nightmarish camp
Thinkers, writers and storytellers
Narrative, voice and good novels — not always at the same time
The BBC can’t fix its class problems with quotas
The Corporation’s diversity obsession is the problem, not the solution
Should we take Kingsley Amis more seriously as a poet?
The acclaimed novelist harboured dreams of writing verse
Some very healthy early music canaries
Helen Charlston & Toby Carr; Siglo de Oro (LFBM, St John’s, Smith Sq)
Covid amnesty for everyone but the politicians
MPs made their bed, but that doesn’t mean we have to lie in it
Too dangerous to live with
There’s no realist case for the lurking risk of nuclear armageddon
Tortured hero of the Giro
The Italian rapscallion
Armageddon: a win for social justice
Destroying the planet would be an act of white supremacy — but there are some advantages
Herbert Butterfield: A prophet for our age?
The Whig interpretation of history explains much that is malignant in modern progressivism
The power of flags
Even in a material age, symbols matter