urban decay

A timely morality tale: The Spoiled Heart, by Sunjeev Sahota, reviewed

4 May 2024 9:00 am

Conflicting ideals of old-school socialism and modern identity politics are fought out against a background of urban desolation worthy of Dickens

cities

In 2020, Trump must save the cities

3 December 2019 6:04 am

This article is in The Spectator’s December 2019 US edition. Subscribe here. In 2014, America’s progressives got a wake-up call. That year,…

Wrangles over the Rust Belt

4 July 2015 9:00 am

In the opening sentence of this subtle and finely poised novel, the narrator, Greg Marnier, known as ‘Marny’, admits that…