William Kent
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
It’s all in the mix
Modern office furniture can now happily sit alongside Queen Anne walnut
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances