The unkindest cut
Why can’t film directors let their work go?
Sacking of the libraries
Should libraries should sell historic manuscripts to solve short-term financial problems
What makes a Penguin Classic?
Alexander Larman talks to the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics, Henry Eliot about what makes a ‘modern classic’
Barbara Windsor – a life lived with a giggle
Babs was a uniquely British actress and comedian whose true worth, thankfully, was realised comparatively early in her long career
Is it time to cancel Roald Dahl – or to celebrate him?
We should treat Roald Dahl as a naïve and unworldly man who never entirely left the realm of make-believe
The career of David Fincher – not so black and white?
David Fincher’s eleventh film is his most personal and revealing yet
A warning to the curious
Why M R James is still the greatest ghost story writer
Is the malaise at Eton symptomatic of something wider?
Is the whole institution of the public school starting to become unfit for purpose in the 21st century?
Has publishing gone woke?
It is the duty of a responsible publisher to reflect the intellectual and social diversity that exists across the world
The evolution of Nick Cave
The former hard-living frontman continues to expand his horizons
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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
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration