National Portrait Gallery
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
Down with skool
When will we stop herding unwilling children into an academic schooling many of them don’t want or need?
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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
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards