Are we an oppressor nation?
Marcus Walker responds to an article calling for a re-examination of Britain’s history
The feminist case for Jordan Peterson
I came to mock the Canadian guru but stayed to respect the depth of his thought
Masterful tombstone for a tudor bruiser
Hannah Betts reviews The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel
A vengeful pursuit of political power
Natascha Engel reviews Unspeakable by John Bercow
Coronavirus: Following the herd on school closures
Is the rush to close schools really necessary?
Sprinting in the coronavirus marathon
Europe escaped SARS in 2003 – and duly failed to plan for the next pandemic
The meaningless Covid-19 models
Which, if any, expert estimates should we take seriously?
Wanted: A new Labour foreign policy
It comes as no surprise that Jeremy Corbyn leapt to Russia’s defence after the Salisbury poisoning
The Man Within
Expect Starmerism to make much more sense in practice than in theory
Five Rules for Ruling
There’s no problem with a witchhunt when there really are witches
The post-Christian identity crisis
Three books portray a West unconscious of its past and uncertain of its future
Modi’s ghastly Delhi dream
The plan to remodel Lutyens’s grand capital is a monument to conceit
We’re all preppers now
Waiting for a pandemic in West Virginia
The twin prophets of pessimism
The novelist and the philosopher linked by a common fascination with despair
Bernie Sanders, the tyrants’ friend
The Democratic presidential hopeful’s record reveals a far-left fellow traveller with some very murky associates
Wild ride for the Bitcoin billionaires
Cryptocurrencies have gone from geek heaven to serious business
The politics of the plague
Boris Johnson may already have waited fatally long
Twitter trolls disprove the myth of intrinsic goodness
Virtual reality is real enough to show man in his “natural” state
Charismatic charlatan
Benjamin Disraeli could change his mind without turning a hair
Who holds the power?
Literary reputations are made and broken by a self-appointed clique of bien pensant liberal intellectuals
A puritan but not a fanatic
Simon Heffer reviews Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay
The poet and the patrician
Stephen Parkinson reviews The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F Buckley Jr, and the debate over race in America, by Nicholas Buccola
War-war not jaw-jaw
Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming
Why populism is popular
Richard Reinsch reviews The New Class War By Michael Lind
Welcome to the unfrozen North
How Canada reinvented its musical prowess
Men beware women
How we underestimate the women in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte
Losing my head over Catherine
How the musical sensation, Six, uncovers more than just the stories of Henry VIII’s wives
The Marbles won’t be lost
Is this the end of the Elgin Marbles debate?
A bountiful Baja garden
Lisa Hilton enjoys sublime food and hibiscus margaritas on an enchanting Mexican ranch
Roast lamb of God
A simple, seasonal feast is best, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Principled abstention
Christopher Pincher embarks on Lent, but allows himself to indulge in French white wine
Antique business
Thomas Woodham-Smith on an old trade in a brave new world