The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Don’t blame “county lines” victims
Exploited children need protecting, not convicting
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Devilishly good
Liszt: Faust Symphony (Bis)
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
