Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
The (in)justice of the Equality Act
Far from guaranteeing equal treatment, the Equality Act has transformed Britain’s understanding of equality from individual rights to group identity
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
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
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
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
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
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
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
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