School Holidays
My husband and Zoe
Claudia Savage-Gore is irked by her man’s latest obsession
Spare the spoons
Claudia Savage-Gore hates the school holidays with three children underfoot
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
The ongoing fiasco of European defence
Starry-eyed talk of continental cooperation obscures the grim reality of competing interests
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Against gorpcore
We have to develop and embrace aesthetics that inspire the imagination
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power