Royal Family
The case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Open the royal files
A culture of gratuitous opacity surrounds the Royal Family
Music fit for a king
The cliché of Britain as “the land without music” was disproved
Struggles of the Sussexes
What kind of future do Harry and Meghan have?
Where are you REALLY coming from?
Taking offence is a high status profession, especially where royals are involved
The Greek prince
Philip the foreigner and the press
A grand old Duke
The Duke of Kent’s life has been little-known — until now
Why Germany mourned our British queen
While few Germans lament the loss of their own emperors and kings, they admire the British idea of monarchy
The building king
King Charles can be a late bloomer
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve