Today's Edition, 4 February 2020

The YouTube-ification of the Right

Conservatives should take a step back from the day-to-day combat of the culture war

Niall Gooch
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14:16

WATCH: Boris on the end of the ‘B word’

More classical rhetoric from the prime minister...

| 3 February

Tame the Chinese dragon? You’ve got to be kidding

We've got into bed with the emerging global power without a coherent strategy

We've got into bed with the emerging global power without a coherent strategy

James Kirkup
Should work be worshipped?

Between the devil and the deep blue sea: workism versus anti-workism

Workism and anti-workism are competing critiques of the way we live now — and they're both wrong

Peter Franklin
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14:16

WATCH: Boris on the end of the ‘B word’

More classical rhetoric from the prime minister...

| 3 February

Will no one resist the new totalitarianism?

Some of Alastair Stewart’s friends will fight for him — but too many of us will let him simply disappear

Roger Scruton’s solution to the housing crisis

Homeowners will be able to vote on a street-by-street basis under radical — but traditional — new plans

How toxic masculinity is tied to terrorism

There's a link between what happens behind closed doors and acts of public violence

Why I won’t be celebrating Brexit

The past four years have been a depressing demonstration of how the Left lost its way

Paul Embery
The seven stages of Remainer grief

It isn’t just Big Ben that should stay silent today. Stop all the clocks.

Polly Mackenzie
Lessons in longevity from Nicholas Parsons

The steadfast familiarity of the Just a Minute host is what another of our great institutions is lacking

Simon Evans
All the lies about Leavers

They're nostalgic, they're gullible, and they're scared of diversity — all these myths have been debunked

Matthew Goodwin

They're nostalgic, they're gullible, and they're scared of diversity — all these myths have been debunked

Matthew Goodwin
Roger Scruton’s solution to the housing crisis

Homeowners will be able to vote on a street-by-street basis under radical — but traditional — new plans

Samuel Hughes
Why tradwives aren’t trad enough

Housewifery in the Fifties literally drove women insane; it's Medieval wives who had it all

Mary Harrington

The Scottish town that rejected nationalism

In East Fife, Scottish nationalism has slowly become more attractive

John Lloyd
Rural Cornwall is right to be anxious

If the duchy is to survive Brexit, something must be done about its not-so-splendid isolation

Tanya Gold
The inconvenient truth about transwomen

Self-identification puts women, children — and trans people themselves — at risk

Debbie Hayton
Boris must be bold: it could save lives

Norway has eradicated child road deaths. With the same political will we could fix our own intractable issues

Ian Birrell

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The Google Maps hack underlines our powerlessness

It is a metaphor for the defeatism of postmodernism

| 3 February
Spotted
07:00

Andrew Yang, the ‘think outside the box’ candidate

The geeky former tech executive has a unique bipartisan appeal

| 3 February
Weekend read
07:00

This piece about the 1990s rave scene takes me back

Today's rave revisionism points to a culture in decline

| 1 February
17:35

After Brexit night, what next?

Five of the most thought-provoking, from the archives...

| 31 January
Debate
15:19

For a different image of freedom, read Stalingrad

Douglas Murray missed out Vasily Grossman's all important prequel

| 31 January
Idea
10:17

These days, Peter the Hermit would have a blue tick

Medieval-style cults headed by dysfunctional people are rising to power online

| 31 January
Audio
15:00

Blair Jr campaigns against the university model of Blair Snr

Euan Blair has some different ideas from his father

| 30 January
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11:58

WATCH: Danny Kruger maiden speech

The Devizes MP touches on community, culture and Christianity

| 30 January
Seen Elsewhere
09:31

Coronavirus leaves no room for cultural sensitivity

In a globalised world we need to hold our neighbours to higher standards

| 30 January
Series: The Twenties are still Roaring

The Twenties are still Roaring

From international relations to art and culture, the 1920s made the world of today

Interviews.

we sit down with original thinkers and talk ideas

Adam Rutherford: How To Argue With A Racist

Giles Fraser talks to Adam Rutherford about his new book.

Debate: How bad is Viktor Orban?

Freddie Sayers gets opposing views from Peter Franklin and Phillip Blond on whether the Hungarian Prime Minister's dangerous reputation is justified.

Richard Layard’s Confessions — History, happiness and mental health

Giles talks to the happiness expert about his journey from the humanities to science, why individualism is making us depressed and how we can be more happy.

Charles Moore’s Confessions — Thatcher, theology and the Tories

Giles talks to the former Telegraph editor about becoming a Catholic, how the licence fee is dividing 'somewheres' and 'anywheres' and why he's never liked the Conservative Party.

Jonathan Sumption’s Confessions – Rights, rhetoric and rationalism

Giles talks to the historian and former Supreme Court Justice about leaving academia behind for a career in law, the problem with human rights and the art of persuasion.

The two faces of Boris Johnson

The PM's classical education instilled a rhetorical world view well-suited to our times

Freddie Sayers

The PM's classical education instilled a rhetorical world view well-suited to our times

Freddie Sayers
Will no one resist the new totalitarianism?

Some of Alastair Stewart’s friends will fight for him — but too many of us will let him simply disappear

Douglas Murray
How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral

A process of moral outbidding is corroding small communities from within

Gavin Haynes

Today’s liberals dream of a workerless paradise

A new book argues that that both Left and Right are now engaged in class war — against the poor

James Bloodworth
Why would you demonise Alcoholics Anonymous?

Holly Whitaker's book damning the programme is partly ludicrous and wholly cruel

Tanya Gold
What unites the Nazis and Communists?

It is well worth climbing the literary mountain that is Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate

Douglas Murray
What would you sacrifice for integrity?

Terrence Malick's new film interrogates a moral dilemma with pernicious modern relevance

James Mumford

Box set: Books of the decade

Our contributors recommend some slow reading for the festive season

How would you respond to the rise of Nazism?

Sebastian Haffner’s powerful 1939 memoir Defying Hitler can help us make sense of current uncertain times

Ian Birrell
America has always been a circus

Kurt Anderson's Fantasyland explores the US tendency to blur fact with fiction

Justin Webb
The cost of liberal economics

Tim Jackson's Prosperity Without Growth shows us how to bring the global economy back into the service of human flourishing

Mary Harrington
The End of the World is always nigh

Richard Landes's much underrated Heaven on Earth explores our lust for Armageddon

Daniel Kalder

What does your constituency really think?