Oscar Wilde
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The many sides of Salome
Critical Mash returns!
Pretty as peacocks
The dandy lives in contradiction — investing the superficial with extravagant seriousness
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
A failed Oscar Wilde
The rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos
Feasts in far pavilions
The cricket tea season will soon be upon us
The tragic downfall of Lord Alfred Douglas
The 20th-anniversary edition of Douglas Murray’s Bosie remains the seminal account of the tragic life of Lord Alfred Douglas
Most Read
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
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal