Orvieto
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s intellectual journey from Peterhouse, to a London college full of left-wing firebrands, from sophisticated intellectual soirées in Holland Park to a “bohemian blur” in Essex and a squalid Fleet Street pub
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Only abortion is like abortion
Don’t tack on abortion to create an impression of progressive goodness
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
