Music Festival
A tale of two Glastos
With ho-hum bands, faux-eco fans and sky-high prices, Glastonbury Festival has strayed far from its countercultural roots
Deep England
Glastonbury isn’t just for leftists
Take the Bizkit
How Woodstock ’99 foreshadowed the MAGA masses of 2016
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Peston’s inbox
It’s all nonsense, and none of it happened, and I can’t remember it, and it’s not what it looks like
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Is the “George R. R. Martin effect” real?
Can we expect a Song of Ice and Fire or a damp squib?
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling