Piddington’s very English revolution
At a packed village hall meeting in picturesque Piddington, parish council leader Tim McNally railed against the British state. “The Government has stacked all of…
Can Cambridge weather the Arday storm?
They say August is the silly season for news. Well, during this endless heat wave of 2026, in the hallowed halls of British academia the season is not so much…
The slow death of Substack
When Substack launched, nine years ago, working journalists thought this new platform might manage the unthinkable: make their profession economically sustainable. That hasn’t happened. Last week, one of Substack’s most…
How MAGA became the war party
A little more than two years ago, the Republican National Convention released a platform pledging to “PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE” and to “RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE…
Does the force fear feminists?
In February, Detective Constable Rachel Fletcher helped secure the conviction of the predatory pedophile Ross Jackson, who was jailed for 23 years for a catalog of child sexual abuse offenses.…
Burnham should beware dumbing down
When I was a child, my grandmother used to make up little fairy tales for me. The characters would be loosely based on people in our family, and part of…
The ‘Me Decade’ — 50 years later
Somewhere in America right now, a 26-year-old is standing in his bathroom, downing his stack: creatine, a fistful of supplements, ashwagandha for the cortisol. Dab some tallow on the face,…
Why Farage will vanquish Lowe
Nigel Farage is Kentish. Downe, the Bromley village where he grew up, was gobbled up by Greater London just two days before his first birthday. But the London Government Act…
Dunwich is enchanted England
It’s a mournful refrain among the English that all the fairies have left these islands. Some say you can only sense them at the Celtic fringes; that the industrial England…
How to survive in a Louisiana swamp
I’d come because I was curious about what drives someone to live in a swamp. The flat-bottomed boat nosed through the murky water like an alligator. At the tiller, Keith…
Camile Paglia is still exhausting
Returning to Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson is a fraught undertaking. As a teenager I feverishly savored every one of Camille Paglia’s 700 incendiary pages,…