Frosty reception in Brussels
The EU didn’t like Frost’s speech – but what do Brexiteers think?
Law and disorder in Cambridge – whose side are the police on?
A mob vandalises Trinity College – and the college authorities and police look away.
Is Jane Austen getting a bum deal?
As the new Emma comes to cinema screens, Alexander Larman considers the innumerable Austen remakes over the past 25 years
What John Whittingdale really thinks of the BBC
The new culture minister airs his views on auntie
Sacred Legal Ordering
Is Jonathan Sumption the man to judge the judges?
Jury’s out for the new attorney general
Is Suella Braverman up to the job?
Cities risen from ashes
75 years after the Dresden bombings, Lincoln Allison discusses the raising of razed cities
The free speech crisis at Britain’s universities
The massive left-wing bias on campus is putting conservative students at risk
Seventies heaven
Biden, Sanders and Warren battle it out to take on Trump
Spartans who remade Britain
If the Spartans had voted for May’s deal, Brussels and Corbyn would have been in control
From feral beasts to pussycats
A Lobby made man on the decline of the parliamentary press from feared newsbreakers to humdrum hacks
Rape: how the left betrayed women
A toxic mix of porn and “woke” feminism has produced a dangerous new misogyny
The “mulatto” Queen
Lisa Hilton debunks a growing myth about a monarch’s consort
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
Picturing Colonial Africa
Alexander Adams reviews Postcards from Africa: Photographs of the Colonial Era, by Christraud M. Geary
Discussing Magic
Jeremy Black reviews The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment, by Michael Hunter
British Crime Classics
Jeremy Black’s recommendations for a murderous British genre
Of mice and writing advice
Tibor Fischer reviews Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
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