The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Toryism à la mode
Could the legacy of French Gaullism breathe life into a listless British conservatism?
Dutch courage
Why is the Farmer Citizen Movement succeeding?
Liberty, fraternity, animosity
The right-wing turn in France
What price Parliament
Renovating Westminster taxes the Leader’s ingenuity — and the public’s pocketbook
Recanting decanting
An expensive evacuation of the Palace of Westminster has now fallen out of favour
All double dutch
Andrew Cusack says the influence of the Netherlands’ seaborne empire can still be felt around the world, from Manhattan and South Africa to modern Sri Lanka
Private passions in the public square
The ground shifts under leading American conservative thinkers like RR Reno
Pugin on the ritz
There’s no case for the costly decant of parliament now
An appreciation of the late John Simon
Andrew Cusack remembers the apotheosis of criticism
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Are Jewish students really afraid of the Freedom of Speech Act?
Some of have raised concerns, yes, but generalisations are wrong and unhelpful
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Turkey must be at the centre of Donald Trump’s policy for the Middle East
It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power
