War
The genius of David Jones
The work of the great modernist poet remains as relevant as it has ever been
Schrödinger’s summer offensive
The Ukrainian offensive is not what it appears
The beauty and the bomb
Barbenheimer is a true cinematic event
The West’s Ukraine policy is no longer ethical
Conscription is a moral evil we should not support
Don’t mention the war
A rosy-hued invocation of the Blitz spirit was a hopelessly misguided metaphor for the Covid pandemic
The errors of escalation
What does it mean and why is it so dangerous?
Israel alone?
The Middle East is entering a dangerous new period
Going to war
Iraq, Eric Ambler and me
The Revolution’s shadow
How did conflict affect British politics?
Don’t make Iran the new Ukraine
American hawks are pushing for war with Tehran
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy