Queen Elizabeth II
Learning of the Queen’s death in Delhi
An everyday patriotism
On paying respects
A noble queue
The King’s touch
What Diana and French philosophy can teach us about the need for monarchy
The Queue
A strange and wonderous thing
A river of grief
The capital is suddenly submerged in mourning
Labour’s reluctant royalists
How Labour leaders from Wilson to Starmer fell for The Queen
The Crown down under
Is Australia still a sceptered isle?
The monarchy in context
How has it survived?
The Queen’s place in history
Professor Jeremy Black talks with Graham Stewart about Queen Elizabeth II’s place in British history
The Queen contra modernity
Why we should keep her values alive
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
