The Swamp
Fundragers splash the cash
The money being poured into US elections is soaring – but it’s often wasted
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
Fears for tiers
The British state must be impartial in the face of different outbreaks of criminality
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Ethnic identity is fine, as long as you’re not English
In the corridors of power, every ethnic grievance is welcome — except for the concerns of the English
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
