Don’t exploit Gisèle Pelicot’s story
Her legal triumph should be the start and not the end of the reckoning
The dark underbelly of the sex industry
Advocacy for the idea of sex work has not been matched by advocacy for the exploited
Techno, bombs, and babushkas
A month travelling across Ukraine
The Bard at Christmas
It is impossible to appreciate Shakespeare without acknowledging his Christian foundations
Embrace uncool Britannia
Warhammer is a barnstorming British success, so why the lack of recognition?
Living in the Eighties
An exhibition of photos from a pivotal decade interests and exhausts
The Susie Green light
Businesses should not be legitimising the controversial CEO
Green in name only
The Green Party doesn’t understand the realities of rural life
The year in military history
2024 has been a rewarding year for lovers of books and history
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
Biden’s legacy of escalation
His last decisions could determine the state of global politics
Let’s diversify the curriculum
If we really want diversity, we need to get more traditional
Explaining the Boriswave
How and why the Conservatives betrayed their voters on immigration
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
Subscribe to save the BBC
A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
It’s the money supply, stupid
How the Keynesian blinkers of Democrat economists led to a second Trump victory
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
The blessings on our doorsteps
It is all too easy to forget the astonishing cultural wealth that lies close to hand in our medieval parish churches
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
Let’s start a cat flap
Why do cute predators get a pass from conservationists?
Dance with the devil
Should a museum be a venue for the display of works of art for sale?
Burgundy on a budget
In search of the wine lover’s holy grail
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
