Leasehold
The end of high quality homes
Michael Gove’s new leasehold reforms risk derailing the economic engine that helped finance some of Britain’s finest suburbs
Abolish the leaseholds
Building homes is useless if it doesn’t lead to ownership
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
Love on manoeuvres
La fille du régiment, Covent Garden
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Sad Scottish schadenfreude
For too many nationalists, England losing is mistaken for Scotland winning
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be