The sacred art of graffiti
For many years I had been obsessed by cave art. In the late summer of 2025, I traveled to Carcassonne to host a literary salon at Convenanza, the late DJ…
The red telephone box can save Britain
In the old St Pancras graveyard nestled behind King’s Cross, there is a tomb. Engraved with pineapples and an ouroboros, and crowned with a shallow dome, it is the resting…
The return of the loony Left
Every so often, social groups fall prey to mass hysteria. The “choreomania” of 1518 saw several hundred Strasbourg peasants dance themselves to death. It lasted weeks, with victims convulsing rhythmically…
The collapse of the postwar order
Since 1945, several pillars of Western life have been taken as given. First, that Western armies can more or less have their way with lesser powers and that guerrilla resistance…
The Great Dumb-Down is here
I have spent most of my adult life in elite universities; first as a student, then doing teaching and research. It now feels inevitable that I would live this way,…
Germany’s demographic disaster
Early on 13 August 1961, Berliners woke up to find their city divided. The East German regime was building the Berlin Wall in a desperate attempt to stop its people…
Why America is running out of missiles
It is a strange thing indeed that among the countless stories about America’s shortage of long-range weapons — a truly crippling scarcity that now both limits President Trump’s strike options…
The invasion of the delivery robots
A walkway is, by definition, a space where machines do not go. It is a hard-won sliver of human-exclusive sanctuary within the treacherous kinetic landscape of urbanized civilization. Bound in…
Meet the Leftist radicals taking on Meloni
In recent months, the Turin suburb of Vanchiglia has begun to look like Belfast at the height of the Troubles. Pairs of Carabinieri riot vans are top-and-tailed on a dozen…
The Jason Arday delusion
Why are delusions so contagious? This is a question I have been asking myself since the terrible news of Jason Arday’s death. Some people seem intent on sustaining the fictional…