Power
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
Soft power has little substance
The foreign policy concept has been used as an excuse for declinist myth-making
The man who loved power
Henry Kissinger loved to wield power more than he respected its implications
How to fix Brexit
A flawed book by a Remainer may offer a crucial answer
It’s a drag
How sacralization ruins low culture
Hail to the Chief (Part II)
The American Civil War and the expansion of executive power
Speaking power to truth
Patrick Porter reviews The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
Seasonal style
Picking the right outfit for summer socials
Just stop
A new wave of disruptive protest is openly criminal, yet is minimally policed. It is time to say enough — and ban them all
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
ULEZ if you want to
Looking back at a week of villains, like Queen Victoria, and heroes, like Dehenna Davison
What future for Winchester Cathedral Choir?
The choral tradition in the cathedral must be enlivened rather than diluted
The Conservative immigration betrayal
The Tories have delivered immigration on an absolutely unprecedented scale
The soul of gender
How trans ideology appeals to deep spiritual instincts
“Trad” theatre can still feel fresh
West End strikes a balance between keeping their spine and nostalgic appeal, whilst avoiding creakiness
The future is blue
With Corbynite leadership and conservative members, Unite embodies Labour’s identity crisis
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
