Wasps
Flying fiends
The wasp may be hated, but you’d be amazed by its intelligence
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Action Tom
Can Tom Tugendhat MP resolve his vibes problem?
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Fears for tiers
The British state must be impartial in the face of different outbreaks of criminality
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
