Big Furniture, Small Staircases: Making an Apartment Move Work
Moving into or out of an apartment can be complicated even when the furniture is modest. Add an oversized sectional, a solid wood wardrobe, or…
Harry and Meghan cannot escape their fate
Two weeks after Diana died, I was riding the U-Bahn in Frankfurt. Across the crowded carriage, a young woman took a single photocopied sheet from her bag with great deliberateness…
How HMOs took over Britain
Something strange is happening to the St James Estate. At first glance, it’s an ordinary-looking Bermondsey housing development — 182 unshowy, yellow and red-brick street houses. Read more Local councils…
Local councils are worse than you think
In the local government office, pinned on the cafeteria wall, was a poster. “Do you struggle to focus in meetings?” it asked. “You might find that something like knitting could…
The reckless psychology of boy racers
“D22 robbery crew no better,” read a comment on a now-deleted TikTok showing reckless driving in County Kildare, complete with a smiling devil face and a heart. “You know it,”…
Why the British Left has fallen for China
In the Eighties, Marxism Today, the theoretical journal of the Communist Party of Great Britain, enjoyed remarkable influence. Edited by the journalist and academic Martin Jacques, it was the first…
How Miami Third Worldism swallowed MAGA
The Trump administration this week pummeled Cuba with yet another round of sanctions, this time targeting its mining, construction, and metals sector. The US government continues to tighten an economic…
Britain’s penny-pinching panopticon
Were a filmmaker looking for a location to shoot a dystopian thriller, they could do worse than choose the Ministry of Justice’s Westminster offices. 102 Petty France, a brutalist masterpiece,…
The flight of middle-class luxuries
It’s easy to forget that the war with Iran was supposed to be a cinch. To say that it has not worked out that way would be an understatement. While…
What Farage can teach Prince Harry
It’s partly the fault of Liz Truss that Prince Harry is so stressed. After a decade of Prime Ministerial merry-go-round that has seen more turnover at No. 10 than on…
The madness of Trump’s Canada trade war
The greatest threat today to American manufacturing and global exports comes from China. The People’s Republic has far surpassed the United States in industrial output and competes with Washington in…