Chamberlain’s fictional rehabilitation
Netflix’s sympathetic take on the great appeaser is ultimately unconvincing
Man’s best friend
Eric Gill was an awful man — but that doesn’t make his art any less brilliant
William Brown turns one hundred
“I’ll thcream and thcream and thcream until I’m thick”
Rabble-rouser in chief
Our increasingly polarised and angry age wants not entertainment, but preachers
Imagine John hadn’t died
It’s easy if you try
The myth of the Victorian Christmas
Our values today are of consumerism and instant gratification, inherited from our Victorian forebears
Bring back bawdiness
Bawdy humour and the pantomime go together like sausages and mash, whatever you make of that banger
The knife-wielding obituarist
Tom Sutcliffe’s obituary of composer Stephen Sondheim was ill-judged and vindictive
Male authors: the sun also sets
Give up writing, men – the world will be a happier place when you do
What happened to sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll?
Music today is anodyne compared to the heydays of Britpop and the sixties and seventies
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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
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
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.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre