Intellectual adventure is not available to bees, who simply do as they do in obedience to their limited nature. The hive may be a place of cohesion, but it contains no libraries, paintings, or statues to heroic bees of the past. Human life without the humanities would be much the same: cut off from our roots, deprived of meditation, and locked in an eternal now. The cult of relevance makes prisoners of us all.

Truss seems happy to keep disappointing the right flank of her party. Truss’s approach to immigration may also tank her popularity with voters who expected a government willing to sacrifice the absolute value of GDP for a stronger, more socially cohesive nation.

In the second in our ‘Occasional Dialogues’ series, Harrison Pitt interviews Peter Hitchens about the Russia-Ukraine war.

To use the Foucauldian jargon, the new left-wing aristocrats are forever manufacturing ‘epistemes’—that is, structures of knowledge—which serve to sustain their dominance of Western society.

Tomorrow morning, the dawn will rise on an irrevocably changed nation.

Despite spending much of the leadership campaign denouncing Sunak’s “handout” schemes and proposing generous tax cuts instead, now in government Truss seems to have U-turned.

Truss faces multiple political challenges from the outset, not least of which is to unite a Conservative party still scarred by the toppling of its most successful leader in decades, not to mention the less-than-amicable leadership contest which followed.

The final in a three-part series exploring Shakespeare’s engagement with pagan/Roman morality in Julius Caesar, this essay looks at suicide in the play.

One of Hazony’s aims is to remind us that liberals and conservatives, while they teamed up against Communism to win the Cold War, do not share a political project. “Enlightenment liberalism,” Hazony argues, “is bereft of any interest in conserving anything. It is devoted entirely to freedom, and in particular to freedom from the past.”

The second in a three-part series exploring Shakespeare’s engagement with pagan/Roman morality in Julius Caesar, this essay looks at the ethics of regicide.

Sources claim that the head of recruitment, herself a senior female officer, has accused RAF leadership of putting an “effective pause” on hiring white male recruits.

The Tory leadership race is a fight between Sunak’s ‘Thatcherite’ concern to prioritise taming inflation and Truss’s ‘Reaganite’ focus on boosting economic growth, even at the expense of deficit-financed tax cuts.