British culture
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
We need to protect our digital rights
The curbing of dissident speech online should be opposed
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
The virtues of complaint
There’s nothing anti-feminist about female complaint
