nostalgia
Best behaviour can be “rock ’n’ roll”
Is it the music that makes bands great — or the “situations”?
The delicate art of sampling
Every reference you pick up on opens a new horizon
An Oxford arriviste
Shades of Brideshead and Saltburn at an unconvincing “classy” Oxford restaurant
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
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
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers