New Year Honours
21st century villains
The Walliams dilemma
Most Read
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all