UNESCO
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
Studio: UNES-GO
Liverpool in the wake of losing its UNESCO world heritage status
The Fate of Hagia Sophia
Will Hagia Sophia’s Christian heritage survive under President Erdoğan’s ‘neo-Ottoman’ vision?
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill
It threatens free speech while offering dubious benefits for society
No happy endings
Our worst sin has been to be weak, rather than merely to be wrong
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
Why Britain needs Popular Conservatism
The Conservative Party has not fulfilled the promise of Brexit or overcome the legacy of Blair
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
