End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Spies and butterflies
We should prepare for new modern forms of espionage
C. L. R. James and the majesty of cricket
The West Indian writer and historian knew that cricket is far more than merely a sport
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
The multi-matrixed revolutions
Predictions of a new Cold War understate the complexity of the future
Ubuntu and the path to progress
South Africa cannot continue down the road towards conflict
The children of Terezín
The human will triumph over the technological in culture
Liberalism’s obituarist
John Gray extends his dark critique of the modern world
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
