The un-cancelled
It seems cancel culture is starting to lose its power
Curious and curiouser
The afterlife of Lewis Carroll and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Once a newspaperman
The true legacy of John Kay
Can public art ever be any good?
Nobody could accuse Hockney of over-exerting himself
The problem with adapting classic novels
Following the letdown of the new adaptation of The Pursuit of Love, Alexander Larman says that TV dramatisations of classic novels haven’t always been this bad
The enduring appeal of the Mitford family
As the BBC’s adaptation of The Pursuit of Love begins, Alexander Larman questions whether the new dramatisation will do justice to Nancy Mitford’s 1945 novel
Line of Duty and the politics of drama
It doesn’t take the minds of AC-12’s finest to see the parallels between our own political climate and the nation’s favourite police drama
Is biography having its very own reckoning?
Blake Bailey has become the latest figure to allegedly fall foul of the uncompromising moral standards of American publishing
Is Hollywood bullying the next #MeToo?
New revelations about Hollywood producer Scott Rudin are a sad but unsurprising indictment on the entire industry and its practices
The reinvention of Ed Balls
Ed Balls’ presence in public life is a welcome reminder that sometimes there can be a second act for former politicians
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth