We are delighted to revive the Bournbrook Magazine YouTube channel with a series of video essays, edited and narrated by S. D. Wickett!

This inability to contend with the most serious of issues facing us is one of the fundamental problems in Western society. We shy away from anything of substance, instead forever indulging in trivialities.

That a young footballer has become the most influential voice on child poverty in Britain raises a number of questions, the first of which relates to the nature and quality of his advice.

It seems timely to set out the case of the political right against Queen Elizabeth II.

Now the rhetoric surrounding climate change is merging with Covid. That it is a disease to be eradicated at all costs – and the people are standing in the way. So, to prevent a scorched earth, the earth must be scorched.

I certainly fear that new restrictions are just around the corner.

Whereas once cultivation of mind and manners were regarded as aspirational, they have been insulted into irrelevance.

That we treated them in this way is repugnant; that some wish we still were doing so is staggering.