06/30/2020 - 3:28pm

Should we decolonise Constantinople? The Hagia Sofia is now the 'Ayosofa' — a term used by the Ottoman Empire

Shouldn’t artists be worrying about Beauty instead of Politics? Today’s pop culture is reaching Victorian levels of moral righteousness

Joanna Rossiter

Digging up King David in the Israeli mountains Archaeologists are unearthing a very different account of Jewish history

Monday, June 29

France’s Green revolution Rising support for the environmentalists could hamper Macron's hopes for 2022

Liked tweets nearly cost me my university job The complaint was dropped, but others may not be so fortunate

Gove signals the end of the Left-Right divide The minister's latest speech was radical — but can he deliver it?

Friday, June 26

Stranded seafarers could trigger a national food crisis An under-reported Covid effect is threatening global supply chains

Mary Harrington

Welcome to the Age of Unreality June 2020 marks the end of a shared idea of truth

Thursday, June 25

Name, please! Pub landlords face confusion over new rules Freddie Sayers speaks to Peter Borg-Neal, CEO of a 28-strong pub group

It’s official: Labour is no longer the party of the poor British politics really has turned upside down...

Isaac Asimov’s dangerous idea The author's flawed concept of psychohistory has real world examples

Wednesday, June 24

US journalists are fanning racial tensions In trying to solve one social evil, something more dangerous could emerge

The Age of Excuses is over Covid has shown how quickly an economy can transform — let's re-structure it

Tuesday, June 23

As a conservative, I mourn the loss of liberalism The Successor Ideology is far, far worse...

A city should be a home, not a playground People are no longer tolerating deteriorating urban conditions

Monday, June 22

Junipero Serra, the latest target for progressives The Catholic saint represented an older world hated by today's Left

Matthew Crawford: the dangers of Safetyism Freddie Sayers meets philosopher-mechanic Matthew Crawford

10 years on, will history repeat itself? The Osborne Budget of June 2010 was not driven by ideology alone

Saturday, June 20

Watermelons won’t save the planet Socialism cloaked in environmentalism will not deliver a sustainable future

Mary Harrington

Friday, June 19

A hate crime… without the hate A troubling development in the City of Oakland

Sam Ashworth-Hayes

For the international class, Brexit is a parochial concern This culture war is mostly irrelevant to their lives

Inequality is not a ‘Left-wing’ issue More and more voices on the Right are expressing concern

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday, June 18

Doctors’ orders: Re-open the schools! The societal costs are mounting and the risks are low

Putin’s cathedral of war embodies his civilisation state The mesmerising building is a glimpse into the country's neo-traditionalist turn

Why capitalise ‘Black’ but not ‘white’? One American newspaper has made a strange change to their style guide

Wednesday, June 17

Gad Saad: cancel culture is dangerous and anti-liberal Freddie Sayers chats to the evolutionary psychologist about identity politics

2020 and the coming of neo-feudalism We are slowly returning to a pre-modern caste system

The C of E has forgotten the power of the parish The Church is the last to appreciate this treasure

Arise, Lord Cummings of Barnard Castle! The No10 advisor will form a critical part of the new-look Government

Tuesday, June 16

Rutger Bregman: Why civilisation is a curse Freddie Sayers hears from the Dutch historian why Hobbes was wrong

Irish schadenfreude about Britain has come full circle The turbulence of UK politics has spread to Ireland

Let’s hire unemployed youngsters to clean graffiti Now is the time to clean up the country and insulate houses