Savile Row
Modus shoperandi
Hannah Betts says it’s the shopping you’re buying, not the outfit
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
For whom the road tolls
Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?
