The Sport of Kings
The Grand National and the culture of horseracing in art and literature
Our “Nation’s Village Hall” turns 150
Anna Price tracks the emergence and endurance of Albertopolis, and how the Royal Albert Hall ties it all together
The ‘equalities’ agenda has backfired
Luther King Jr’s dream of a colour-free world is being thwarted by professional anti-racists
Clementi House
From music to medicine: the secrets of a Kensington home
Traditional rebels
Why music students are resisting the new teaching regime
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave