Stoicism
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
I miss the stiff upper lip
Some social constructions deserve to be kept
The Queen contra modernity
Why we should keep her values alive
The shows should go on
Would the Queen want us to cancel events?
When it’s great to be British
The country of understatement and the stiff upper lip responds well in a crisis
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism