sobel Williams Carcanet
Cheeky blinder
Isobel Williams’s treatment of selected poems is literary charcuterie, as neat as it is naughty
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself