Peter Glanz
Rakes, ruin and refinement
Peter Glanz’s Savage House captures the splendour, squalor and social ambition of Georgian Britain with remarkable historical confidence
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
An ode to the examination
The end of in-person examinations would be the end of rational assessment
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)