The Grand Guignol
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give