Soft Power
Bulldozing Britain’s brand
A lament for the destruction of the magnificent British Embassy building in Bangkok
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Soft power has little substance
The foreign policy concept has been used as an excuse for declinist myth-making
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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
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at