William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
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Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
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Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Spectres of folk
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The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define