Rural Life
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The war of inclusivity against distinctiveness
Is the British countryside too British?
Hitting the trail
What does the government have against rural life?
In defence of the Lake District
The rewilding fad has been polluted by misanthropy
Where the wild things aren’t
England’s green and pleasant land has become a cultural battleground
Live and let live
Labour must resist the urge to kick field sports
Itchen for fishing
Good fishing, books and beer remind us that not everything is awful
The dog won’t hunt
Why are we so dismissive of rural ways?
Monarchs of the fen
Stalking muntjac and fallow deer in Lincolnshire
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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
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet