The Tories’ phony peace
The real battle of ideas will begin when the party’s time in office reaches the end of the road
Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit
A classicist in No 10: Boris and his worldview
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
