Weeds in the garden
A brilliant new work walks the thorny path of motherhood
How do you solve a problem like memoir?
A new book by Melissa Febos gets right to the heart of the genre
The cult of the father
A memoir of a family pulled apart by the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Memorials to the fallen of Covid
An act of quasi-guerrilla commemoration
French soul searching
The search engine that tells you if you are descended from slave owners
The Lost Bohemians
Arabella Byrne asks if the modern world still has room for artistic outlaws
Napoleon Bonaparte: A PR nightmare
On the bicentenary of his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains a curiously stubborn rampart of cultural history in France and beyond
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
