Mackenzie wasn't a bloodthirsty glory hound.

London’s brutalist Southbank Centre has been listed at Grade-II by Historic England. The centre is visited by ~3.4 million visitors a year. Modernist aficionados are cock-a-hoop. This, they claim, is evidence Britain now loves brutalism. My latest article in The Critic ...

REVEALED: The man who makes Malcom Tucker’s onion bhaji go away doesn’t like onion bhajis Brilliant to discuss The Thick Of It with Alex Macqueen More on the URGENT QUESTIONS podcast pod.fo/e/3bfd7b

If the Treasury fucks up GCAP, I'm going to make it my life goal to get it broken up. HMT has far too much power, the Chancellor arguably has more power than even the PM over domestic policy and its penny pinching short termism is killing us.

what a sequence!

Is this Orbán's Ceaușescu moment?

THOMAS SOWELL: “if you’re going to have reparations for slavery, it’s going to be the greatest transfer of wealth back and forth, because the number of Whites who were enslaved in North Africa by the Barbary Pirates exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the United States.”

An eloquent King’s Counsel in full, passionate flow is a thing of beauty. Following on from Geoffrey Cox KC’s barnstorming speech, here’s North Eastern Circuit Leader, Caroline Goodwin KC telling the Labour minister that reducing jury trials is not the answer to dealing with the backlog of cases.

Euston Arch to be demolished & replaced with one of the worst stations in London despite the huge campaign by Sir John Betjeman to stop it is a huge stain on Harold Macmillan’s legacy. An early example of a nominal conservative failing to really conserve anything.

Lee Kuan Yew: I would work with the Australians and New Zealanders but not the Americans

A Ceaușescu moment for the Russian-backed Orban regime last night, as months of basing his entire campaign on hating Ukraine backfires at his own rally. While the city is blanketed in posters ridiculing Zelensky, Hungarians have had enough.

Americans boast of an “aerospace republic”. We used to be an aerospace monarchy…

Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles struck Promsintez explosives production in Chapaevsk, Exilenova+ reports. That’s over 1,000 km from the frontline.

Exclusive from Patrick Maguire and Oliver Wright * Labour's internal MRP polling is said to be apocalyptic, in the capital and beyond. Labour is on course to lose *every one* of the 50 seats it holds in Sunderland, home to Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary. Most

🇭🇺 While most of Europe has rallied behind Ukraine, Hungary has sought to preserve relations with Russia. With Hungary heading into a pivotal election, Francis Dearnley travelled to the country to understand why – and to consider what could happen if Viktor Orbán loses power.

Real-terms GDP per capita growth per Prime Minister: Winston Churchill: +0.8% Clement Attlee: +3.2% Winston Churchill: +9.8% Anthony Eden: +4.5% Harold Macmillan: +14.3% Alec Douglas-Home: +2.3% Harold Wilson: +13.6% Edward Heath: +8.1% Harold Wilson: +3.8% James Callaghan:

James Tolkan has died at 94. "Son, your ego's writing checks your body can't cash." - Top Gun (1986) This scene is a masterclass in movie shorthand. In seconds you get Maverick’s attitude, his history, how he flies, and the entire setup. And Tolkan absolutely nails it.

Amazing video… Interviewer: Is this Marseille neighborhood peaceful? Leftist: Yes, very peaceful and diverse but we live in peace Instantly a migrant appears and threatens to hit a Frenchman for smoking during Ramadan, saying “it's haram & provocative”

Looking into exactly how Britains space program was smothered in the cradle, it’s hard to avoid the suspicion than since Suez the US State Department and HM Treasury have been busily engaged in a conspiracy to destroy this country.

“The goal: to force production shutdowns at some fields through sustained disruption of exports and refining.”