Political Violence
Why civility matters, even when it’s hard
Swallowing our pride is better than political violence
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
The goose and the golden egg
The City of London Corporation arguably survives for one reason only: money
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
Night of the ghost fascism
If a far right protest is rumoured but no one turns up, can it be counter-protested?
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism