Food for Thought
The saga of the Rex Whistler restaurant and Tate Britain
Drop the agitprop
David Hare is an extraordinarily accomplished writer when he doesn’t revert to contemporary politics
Bridge Over Troubled Water: 50 Years On
Half a century on, the song remains an an eternally affecting evocation of the need for solidarity and comfort
Brought to Book: James Marriott
Larman on the Editor hounded off Twitter for saying male novelists are being excluded
Is this the end of cinemagoing as we know it?
Will compulsory face-masks, social-distancing and an air of paranoia drive audiences to online streaming once and for all?
How to cheat the bestseller list
Buying your way into the book charts is more widespread than you might think
Something Changed: Can Jarvis Cocker recapture former glories in 2020?
Alexander Larman asks whether Jarvis Cocker’s latest album release will reignite his former success
Assassinating Edward VIII
Did MI5 let one of their own informants have a go at the king?
Why hasn’t Philip Larkin been cancelled?
When Larkin is inevitably denounced, I’ll be reading his forbidden work by torchlight
Can the monarchy last?
Prince Andrew’s televisual hara-kiri has imperilled the Crown, perhaps fatally
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
The Scottish Government are being bad eggs
State institutions should not be encouraging a potentially painful and dangerous procedure
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
