Features
The BBC must be saved from itself
Our national broadcaster is on course for financial self-destruction and viewers no longer trust it to be impartial. Boris must rescue it
Auschwitz’s antechamber
The point of departure for condemned French Jews was the banal banlieue of Drancy, outside Paris
Sticks, stones and lawsuits
The Conservatives may be in government, but the influence of the censorious trans lobby is growing not abating
Speaking up for female eunuchs
The woes of “detransitioners” are a warning: treating children with gender dysphoria is riskier than zealots admit
The necessary death of Orwell’s England
The writer’s paeans for a nation at war are perpetuating a dangerous idea—that English exceptionalism makes extremism impossible
Holy unseen: the Pope’s surrender to China
The Vatican’s new pact with the Communists seems to have bought the pontiff’s silence at the expense of millions of betrayed Catholics
A crown of thorns
A diminished, secular Britain means that the next coronation will not match the majesty and mystery of the last
Shelf Life
The London Library exemplifies the best of the capital’s literary life and history
A woke at the wheel of wonderful museums
If the country’s great collections are to be saved from the illogic of left-wing groupthink, we must find a new type of thinker
Remembering Roger Scruton
The maverick philosopher, who has died at 75, was a conservative outlier, respected but ignored by the Tory party
