nostalgia
Living in the 80s
Did popular culture peak four decades ago?
When things could only get better
Fans of the 1990s aren’t nostalgic reactionaries. They celebrate an era of optimism, peace, prosperity and great popular culture
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
My war stories
The role of the war film in British cinema
Who’s afraid of the 1950s?
Romanticism can be radical tool for positive change
Arsenic and old lace
Autumn arrives and nostalgia descends
Nostalgia is what it used to be
Would getting Britons to close their storybook really solve Britain’s problems?
The Road to the Cass Review — (2) Stephanie Davies-Arai
How doubts began to penetrate the walls of gender ideology
The final lap
Senna dives into the high-speed Tamburello corner and never comes out of it
Setting ourselves on fire
Multiculturalism has created fractured communities where nobody cares
A majority built on sand
Keir Starmer should not feel too triumphant — hard times lie ahead
The problem with prescriptions
Concerns about over-prescription should not be trivialised or problematised
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
Planning for success
Even with its huge majority, Labour has a finite amount of political capital. It should spend a great deal of it on planning reform
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
Big town life
Force for progress, loyalist fortress, or den of iniquity — the English town has been all of these, and more
Wanderer above the sea of clods
The next month might be maddening but it will not be dull
The gambling suicides myth
The rate of deaths caused by gambling has been foolishly exaggerated
