The Restoration of the Democratic elites
‘The shouting and the joy expressed has passed all imagination… all the world in a merry mood because of the king’s coming.’ These lines from Samuel Pepys’s 1660 diary could…
‘The shouting and the joy expressed has passed all imagination… all the world in a merry mood because of the king’s coming.’ These lines from Samuel Pepys’s 1660 diary could…
For a few heady weeks, the unrest in France was the left-liberal commentariat’s favourite kind of story. Here, apparently, were idealistic teenagers rising up like in 1968 – though this…
It’s time to start stockpiling spam, stashing your petty cash and hoarding hand sanitiser, according to the UK government. The ‘Be Ready’ campaign, launched last week by defence secretary Wes…
Last summer, Britain’s political and cultural elites were confronted with an alarming situation. A dangerous social contagion was spreading across the country, seemingly out of nowhere. This terrible pox was…
A political earthquake would be too weak a description of the shock caused by last Sunday’s election in the small German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The governing Christian Democrats (CDU) won…
Socialism is au courant in America today, though in its 21st-century form, it is less a rebellion of the proletariat than a by-product of the capitalist elite. Through its continued…
Socialism is au courant in America today, though in its 21st-century form, it is less a rebellion of the proletariat than a by-product of the capitalist elite. Through its continued…
Ten years ago, the Brexit referendum tried and failed to settle Britain’s relationship with the EU. We are now in limbo, unable to decide what we want or why. That…
At around half past 10 on Monday night, 8 June, on a residential street in north Belfast, a man in his thirties allegedly pinned another man to the ground and…
Pour la deuxième fois en quatre ans, la Grande-Bretagne est confrontée à une crise énergétique majeure. Depuis que l’Amérique et Israël ont commencé à bombarder l’Iran, les prix mondiaux du…