Matador
Blood and beauty
Bullfighting magnificence in Santander
Lords of the ring
Christopher North says while matadors come and go, pedigree fighting bulls remain
Death of a maestro
Christopher North pays tribute to one of the two great matadors of the Golden Age
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
