Lord Byron
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
The lovelorn lady who broke the rules
A romantic forced by peculiar privilege into perpetual masquerade
How to become a cult writer
What does it take for an author to become idolised way beyond their literary merit?
It ran in the family
Alexander Larman reviews Fall of the House of Byron, by Emily Brand
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
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 global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
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Keir has my complete backing – Wes