London Pubs
March 2024: Letters to the Editor
Record-setting sons and founding fathers
The sad decline of London pubs
Or, why the hell can I not get a drink after 9?
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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
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms