Viktor Orbán
Letter from Budapest
Tibor Fischer discovers the first of many Roger Scruton cafés
Hajdúszoboszló on my mind
Tibor Fischer in Budapest muses on Hungary’s fractious political alliance
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders