Transylvania
Land of his birth
Little of the Hungarian aristocrats’ world remains, except a few crumbling buildings — and Count Bánffy’s stories
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Save St John’s Voices
The glorious tradition of British choral singing should be defended
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
