Do Prime Ministers lose their seats?
There is no special place in the British electoral system for party leaders
'Between you and me...'
All the gossip that’s fit to print from our showbusiness veteran
Cancel the war on progressives
Cancel culture hurts most those who cheer it on
The local food revival
Felipe Fernández-Armesto rejoices in the pleasures and comforts of traditional food
All aboard the trans-Lib Dem express
The Lib Dems’ approach to transgender rights showcases the contradictions of identity politics
Starting blocks
On the most important nomination stage in living memory
The Hartlepool Declaration
How much impact will Farage’s retreat really have?
The myth of Abbey Road
Abbey Road is less a cornerstone of the Beatles’ legend than its tombstone
A flawed masterpiece that will dominate the field
Jeremy Black reviews David Abulafia’s The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
Bad manners
Did a Miami Art Gallery really sell a Rembrandt by accident?
The real tragedy of Ayers Rock
The ban on climbing Australia’s most famous landmark will do nothing to help the Aborigines it purports to protect
The beauty of Brutalism
Durham’s concrete masterpiece needs love, not the wrecking ball
Winners of the Wall Game
A confident new Germany has consigned division to history
Digging up Franco, burying history
The resurgent Spanish left wants to exhume the former dictator’s remains and even outlaw any favourable mention of his legacy
Darren against Remain’s Goliath
Abused as a criminal and fined £20,000 by the regulator, a hero of Brexit has been vindicated
Whose side is Tulsi Gabbard on?
A pro-Assad, anti-war presidential candidate unsettles her Democratic rivals
Booker prize chumps
The inside line on the book world
Supreme maestro
Watching Lord Pannick QC addressing 11 justices of the Supreme Court is like watching one of the great maestros conducting a symphony orchestra
Welcome to The Critic
The opinions which govern modern Britain should be seen as such — opinions. We will drag them kicking and screaming into public view
Chronicles of an epic egomaniac
Tackling Harold Bloom
The rats and cowards who brought down a Titan
Simon Heffer on the final instalment of Charles Moore’s Thatcher biography and Paul Corthorn’s ‘Enoch Powell’
Might-have-been books
Do I ever regret the books I might have written? Only fleetingly.
A constant search for heroes
Michael Henderson on Sir Neville Cardus
Ghostly good taste
Douglas Murray reviews ‘Old House of Fear’ by Russell Kirk
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
The gang master
Martin Scorcese’s new Mafia movie is the culmination of a great career
Naughty but nice
Every six months or so opera surfaces from its undersea lair, like a Bond villain, to enter public consciousness — generally when it’s been naughty.
Default, to a fault
Where are the plays that challenge the orthodoxy of left-liberal groupthink?
Is New Noma really a world beater?
A top-rated restaurants leaves a nasty taste
Cupboard love affair
An MP sorts through the collection of wines gathering dust in the office cupboard
Fun and danger at the Fair
‘I need antique fairs like a junkie needs a needle’
The frock du jour
Joining the dots in search of the The Dress