Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
David Lean
the cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life