Mary Harrington

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  • Dec 9, 2024
    At the weekend, Notre Dame cathedral in Paris celebrated its first Mass in five years, after it was severely damaged in a 2019 fire. In a ceremony attended by international...
  • Nov 27, 2024
    I was expecting Starmer to be awful. But less than six months into his premiership, his government’s prissy authoritarianism, student-union self-righteousness, and vindictive...
  • Jul 11, 2024
    In his inaugural speech as Prime Minister, Keir Starmer promised to govern in a sober way, befitting the challenges of the day. He anchored his opening address in...
  • Jun 24, 2024
    Reform UK has performed startlingly well since the return of Nigel Farage, and is now ahead of the Conservative Party according to several polls. It’s...
  • May 29, 2024
    Protestors brandish Nazi symbols in central London. “A group of people” riots in Sheffield. Rapists cannot be deported because...
  • Apr 11, 2024
    Reactionary as I am, it gives me no pleasure to report that conservatism is finished. As Britain struggles with the exhausted death-spasms of liberal Toryism, the only subset of...
  • Feb 6, 2024
    God Save The King. The announcement yesterday that King Charles is receiving treatment for cancer has sent another tremor through a Britain that feels frailer by the...