Will the queue bring down Putin?
Few things symbolize late Soviet decay like the queue. I remember, in 1991, walking to the grocery store from school so I could hold a…
How David Miliband failed upwards
David Miliband is on maneuvers. Westminster’s lobby stenographers have been busy quoting “friends” on his readiness to serve in the Cabinet if offered a top job, backed up by a…
My night in ‘Mamdani-Ville’
“A lot of the people here are gone now — they came and moved us out.” So said the woman standing next to a squalid tent residence that has sprung…
Can prog rock again?
Has any genre of music ever suffered so cataclysmic a decline in popularity as progressive rock? Disco comes close: in 1979, a shock-jock DJ named Steve Dahl blew up a…
Why Farage’s mates love Montenegro
Seeking to dodge scrutiny over his failure to declare millions in donations, Nigel Farage is doing his utmost to keep the focus on his anticipated re-coronation as MP for Clacton-on-Sea,…
Are influencers ruining the Camino de Santiago?
Less than a week after graduating from college, I packed my backpack and boarded a plane to Porto, Portugal, to walk the Camino de Santiago, one of the most ancient…
Ann Widdecombe: Britain’s last Battleaxe
Fifty years from now, said John Major in 1993, “Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and…
AOC’s Leftist headache
Next year, the Democratic Socialists of America will have at least six of their own in Congress. The Squad — an overlapping, larger grouping in the House that includes Leftist…
How Tommy Robinson radicalized my mum
“I am England til I die! I’m England till I die. I know I am, I’m sure I am, I am England til I die!” Mum’s in her element. She’s…
The deep-state cult of Leo Strauss
Have you ever noticed that there seems to be something shadowy at the heart of American conservatism? A secret club that has infiltrated Ivy League lecture halls and the corridors…
Why you can’t crush populism
The great French diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand remarked about the Bourbons after the French Revolution that they had “learnt nothing and forgotten nothing”. We might say the same about…