Something for the Weekend
Literate, satirical, witty and romantic
Neil Hannon is one of the true greats of songwriting
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area