Ulrich Gutmair
A glorious flowering of difficult ideas
Two newly translated books evoke chapters of the divided and discarded history of Germany’s capital
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer