GDF

There's a very specific online Anglo-trad aesthetic: tweed, home counties, Brideshead Revisited, Chesterton, pipe-smoking, a deliberately upper-middle class Edwardian refined affect which is totally inscrutable to anyone outside of it. It's meaningless to me, from a scruffy council estate Up Norf. I relate far more to a 19th century chapel aesthetic: William Booth's early Sally Army, Wesleyan Methodism, inner-city missions.

Deeply privileged to attend the State Banquet at Windsor Castle, alongside my husband hosted by Their Majesties King Charles III & Queen Camilla, in honour of H.E. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu & First Lady Oluremi Tinubu. A monumental UK–Nigeria moment. God’s grace 🙏🏾🇬🇧🇳🇬

The collapse of the Prostant/Roman divide and its replacement with undifferentiated cultural Christianity in the UK is a very obvious sign of the Americanisation of UK discourse.

The point of wealth is to leave it to your children. That is its only value, it has no other value, but it has many forms of anti-value, like leaving it to a charity. Lynch was a good man. He understood the assignment.

Three of Starmer’s nominees have already been brought down by revelations about their pasts. No one - literally no one - believes that the rest of us are here “through public service and merit”. We are a collection of quangocrats, trade union dinosaurs, councillors and ex-MPs.