Decline and Fall of the BBC

by Peter Hitchens

The British Broadcasting Corporation is not what it officially claims that it is. Continue Reading »

7 May 2018

Bleeding for Britain

by Peter Hitchens

In Britain it is still rather enjoyable to donate a pint of blood. Continue Reading »

28 Dec 2017

Alice’s Oxford

by Peter Hitchens

The new Oxford, with its fair share of Starbucks and burger joints, is far more convenient than the old—but it is not such a good place in which to think and imagine.  Continue Reading »

10 Nov 2017

A Boring, Bleating Old Traddy

by David Randall

He sang like a master fencer with a clubfoot.
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23 Aug 2016

God and Brexit

by George Weigel

When biblical religion collapsed, as it manifestly has in most of Old Europe and too much of New Europe after 1989, commitments to subsidiarity and its respect for difference imploded as well. Continue Reading »

17 Aug 2016

Everyday Barbara Pym

by B. D. McClay

In 1943, mourning the end of a short-lived love affair that would leave her (even months later) sitting “desolately by the fire shivering uncontrollably with an aching head and longing to be cherished,” Barbara Pym recorded walking by a pre-Raphaelite tomb and brooding a little. At this point . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2016

Spirit for the Ages

by A. N. Wilson

Gin: The Manual by david broom mitchell beazley, 224 pages, $19.99 Britain’s two national drinks—beer and gin—have both undergone a revival in the last decade. Twenty years ago, if you drove through Kent, you would see them plowing up the hop fields. No one, it was thought, would ever want to . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2016

All the East is Moving

by Tom Holland

For many years, German leaders had been struggling to cope with an influx of peoples across their borders. While the crisis was one that had afflicted much of Europe, it was Germany that bore the brunt. Year after year they had been coming, crossing from the steppes of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2016

Leave Wins

by Mark Movsesian

Like most Americans, I paid little attention to the Brexit campaign. It seemed a foregone conclusion. The prediction markets were signaling that a vote to leave the E.U. was a long shot; the polls indicated that Remain was comfortably ahead; the stock markets were quiet. Besides, anti-E.U. protests . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Jun 2016

Britain Votes on Brexit Today. Here’s What’s at Stake

by R. R. Reno

Today is the most important day in European politics since the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Continue Reading »

23 Jun 2016