Sparkling sweep of the turbulent south
A new history beautifully distils revolutionary cultures in post-Napoleonic Europe
Will TikTok take to Tocqueville?
Popular history can be more than everything ribald and rip-roaring and frenetic and fun
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
We are the cultural Norns
Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Playing the ball
The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
