Spartans who remade Britain
If the Spartans had voted for May’s deal, Brussels and Corbyn would have been in control
The "mulatto" Queen
Lisa Hilton debunks a growing myth about a monarch’s consort
The free speech crisis at Britain’s universities
The massive left-wing bias on campus is putting conservative students at risk
Rape: how the left betrayed women
A toxic mix of porn and “woke” feminism has produced a dangerous new misogyny
Nicholas Parsons vs Auberon Waugh
How Parsons won a battle of wits
The politics of the Pet Shop Boys
How the electronic dance duo made more than a minimal contribution to music
How to get history wrong: a case study
Jeremy Black explains the strange case of Edward Lucas
Vinous Valhalla
David Womersley reveres Roger Scruton on wine
Philosopher par excellence
Beyond the breaking glass of his public interventions, Sir Roger Scruton was a peerless intellectual
Few heirs to spare
Is philosophy even within reach of conservatives?
Seventies heaven
Biden, Sanders and Warren battle it out to take on Trump
The political disruptor
Jon Moynihan: The flamboyant businessman who played a key role in Brexit
From feral beasts to pussycats
A Lobby made man on the decline of the parliamentary press from feared newsbreakers to humdrum hacks
India’s rape crisis
India is gripped by a “rape emergency”, a brutal conflict that is escalating
Filthy shades of grey
Why do people — and men in particular — dress so vilely now?
A brilliant life of ideas, insight and politics
Gertrude Himmelfarb: an intellectual giant who believed history could save us
Manufacturing Lies
Factories of elite opinion like the Economist will fail if they produce shoddy goods
The desert martinet
Viscount Montgomery: tactless, arrogant and with no instinct for politics
Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
The UK’s four nations can be reinvented and flourish
The Anglo-British belief in national self-government could forge a new path
Of mice and writing advice
Tibor Fischer reviews Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
American idealists in hell
Roland Elliot Brown reviews The Russian Job by Douglas Smith
The unhappy iconoclast of the Right
J. C. D Clark reviews Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by D. W. Hayton
Ring up the new
The most expensive post-war work sold last year fetched just over $91 million. The most expensive Old Master sold for $21.5 million
Tapping into history
As soon as you enter Idagio.com you can kiss your working day goodbye
She’s not the messiah…
Watching Greta Thunberg and the hysterical devotion she arouses, I am reminded of Judaism’s best-known self-styled redeemer
A belly full of agitpropera
Opera really doesn’t need the help of activist directors when it comes to politics — it’s all there already
A full stop in Sussex
Lisa Hilton is influenced by a Booker Prize shortlisted novel as she samples gastropub grub
Heaven in a tin
Improvise in the kitchen, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Black to basics
Hannah Betts on the colour with which you can’t go wrong
Buck fizz
Patrick Galbraith describes the exhilaration of hunting