VE Day
Is the lockdown causing more problems than it is solving?
And how much longer can Britain’s WWII commemorations endure into the future?
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules