Railways
Rail tracks
Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains
All aboard!
Tom Chesshyre picks his favourite British railways
Natural health service
Theodore Dalrymple on the naturalness of what we eat
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts