Leo Tolstoy
We have much to learn from nineteenth-century Russia
Since the Cold War we have, to our detriment, become increasingly blinded to the wisdom of the Old Russia
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
