William Webb Ellis
An inspired cheat
Admiring William Webb Ellis’s “fine disregard for the rules”
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Decline of the underclass
In the 21st century, London has lost its own internal logic
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
The Turner Prize’s identity crisis
The art establishment has revived competent drawing in spite of itself
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Down the primrose WPATH
Responsible medical authorities must reject the dangerous nonsense of gender-affirming care
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
