Remembrance
A grim parody of remembrance
The proposed “National Day for Victims and Survivors of Terrorism” is disingenuous and disrespectful
Britain, remembered
Remembrance risks becomes a state ritual for an untrusted and despised establishment
What we have forgotten
Modernity as a collective act of amnesia
Time to forget?
Remembrance day is like an arts and craft spin-off of the Great British Bake-Off
A Valhalla of remembrance
The National Memorial Arboretum is an ambitious landscape of trees and statuary — but does it work?
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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
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 has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party