Nation States
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
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
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
