Culture Shutdown
Can the arts survive coronavirus?
The Talentless Mr Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein’s disruptive career in film
Heaven Knows He’s Miserable Now
The never-ending rise and fall of Morrissey
Antiquarian enterprises
The highs and lows of antiquarian bookselling
When the hype becomes the story
As Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light is released this week, Alexander Larman examines the over-excitement of high-profile releases
Wandsworth’s white-collar clubmen
Alexander Larman reviews A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner by Chris Atkins
Is it art – or a trigger warning?
Once, the establishment might have left the unsavoury implications to the viewer’s own intelligence
Has the National Theatre lost its way?
Alexander Larman considers Rufus Norris’s vision, and the future of the National Theatre.
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
Tom Stoppard – The ‘timid libertarian’ speaks for himself
Like Wilde, Tom Stoppard has finally realised the importance of being earnest
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
