Southbank
Requiem for London’s music
How London has lost its place as a classical music capital.
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
