Patriotism
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
The case for national service
It will benefit the young and benefit the nation
What we have forgotten
Modernity as a collective act of amnesia
Learning of the Queen’s death in Delhi
An everyday patriotism
Channel 4 is not worth conserving
You can’t build a nation on Dr Who, Gin and publicly-owned TV networks
Against the useful idiots
Why ‘God Save The Queen’ matters too
Turning the tide on cancel culture
One man’s crusade against the woke decolonisation of our patriotic anthems
The uniquely British thing about the Labour Party
The left shouldn’t leave the people’s patriotism behind
Nationalist Health Service
Why does the Government say ‘your NHS’ rather than ‘your country’?
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
