Modernity
O blind new world
Behind modernity’s moralistic exhortations lies a cold-blooded mania for total control
God wake ye, Merry England
The decadence and excess of the city is of a piece with puritanical restraint
Antique business
Thomas Woodham-Smith on an old trade in a brave new world
Boris plays for time
How long does the beleaguered Prime Minister have left?
Clubbing after Covid
The meek may inherit the Earth, but not yet
What price Parliament
Renovating Westminster taxes the Leader’s ingenuity — and the public’s pocketbook
Hate is not a crime
Officers’ good intentions have been weaponised by unscrupulous whingers to muzzle their ideological opponents
Recanting decanting
An expensive evacuation of the Palace of Westminster has now fallen out of favour
Man’s best friend
Eric Gill was an awful man — but that doesn’t make his art any less brilliant
What’s gone is here again
Video game technology has reconstructed the lost gardens of Alexander Pope
Fact not fiction
A response to the GEO
Below the belt
Why is the government comparing Christian pastoral care to rape?
Sparks, glitterballs and masterworks
The greatest works of fiction published this year
On trial for a Bible tweet
Finnish MP’s case could set a precedent for “unacceptable” beliefs across Europe