Matthew Arnold
All sweetness and light
Two hundred years after his birth, critic and poet Matthew Arnold still has much to teach conservatives
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets