Spanish History
Choosing hate
Does exhuming the remains of a nationalist icon represent progress or division?
The Whig view of Spanish history
For left-wing author Giles Tremlett, concord is the telos of Spain’s history — on the left’s terms, that is
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health