MI5
Do the Slow Horses stay the course?
Hopefully season five will not end in a creative cul-de-sac
Back door diplomacy
A fine history of Operation Chiffon
Welcome to Londongrad
We promise to respect Her Majesty’s life tenancy of Buckingham Palace
Britain’s Nazi collaborators
If Hitler’s planned invasion of Britain had succeeded he would have found accomplices as fanatical as those in Europe
Assassinating Edward VIII
Did MI5 let one of their own informants have a go at the king?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
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
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then