Decayed and desacralized, gone are the days in which we can relish in romance without being called hopeless. An act once purely of love between a husband and wife, the artwork in which two...
I don’t watch RuPaul’s Drag Race, despite the widely held belief that gay men fell head over heels for it. I enjoy drag queens on the occasional night out, but I can’t say I’m...
The state of emergency caused by COVID-19 has not stopped the work of opinion columnists. If anything, it has increased it, as the lack of a commute has given people more time to think...
Whilst the musical tradition now known as European classical music is one of the towering accomplishments of western civilisation, many westerners either publicly proclaim or privately agree that “classical music is boring”. Whilst this...
There are certain films, such as Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and Genevieve (1953), which encapsulate for me everything Englishness is supposed to be. You could say these visions of England do not represent...
The two World Wars have, in ways beyond counting, defined our modern mindset; but while the Second World War is often a point of pride, where ‘Britain stood alone in defiance of evil’, the...
Second in Sarah Stook’s series on Iran. In 1979, three things occurred in Central Asian and The Middle East that changed the region, opening it up to fundamentalism, authoritarianism and fervent anti-Western thought. One...
It’s been a great year for the right, so here are the 100 top right-wingers in the UK of 2019. Whilst not all are big C Conservatives, many are. Politicians make up the bulk...
Star Rating: 5 Isabel Hardman manages something extraordinary in her 352 page book. She manages to make us feel sorry for our politicians. That’s no easy task, considering how we see politicians. Most of...
We always have an image in our mind about First Ladies. Sometimes we think of the glamour of Jackie Kennedy, the tragedy of Mary Lincoln, the youth of Frances Cleveland or the openness of...
