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‘I’m not sure what David Cameron intends to do for me when he offers to support people if they split up with their partners’

Drinking champagne at the Wallace Collection does not constitute the whole of that Western civilisation which Standpoint exists to celebrate and defend, but it feels like a good start

The latest literary biopic, The Edge of Love, presents Dylan Thomas as a dreary boorish philanderer, not a great writer

Thatcherism provoked great TV but the makers of Headcases are too liberal, too condescending and not nearly angry enough

Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle between East and West by Anthony Pagden

Cold Cream by Ferdinand Mount

The Hamburger: A History by Josh Ozersky

Higher education has been hijacked by the quangocracy: teaching is neglected, research is distorted by bogus assessment methods, and trust in professional judgement is gone

While America prepares for the next wave of terrorist attacks, Britain is sleepwalking. Yet it is not too late to avert disaster

The West is a gift to Kremlin propagandists; we should express more pride in our system that has given genuine freedom to millions