Bring back the Radio 4 UK Theme
A fractured nation needs its unifying sounds
Let’s diversify the curriculum
If we really want diversity, we need to get more traditional
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
The blessings on our doorsteps
It is all too easy to forget the astonishing cultural wealth that lies close to hand in our medieval parish churches
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Bringing the Bacchae to the bush
Chula finds a cultural confidence in Malawi that is lacking in the contemporary West
Christianity’s dying passion
England would miss the faith if it disappeared
The fatal hubris of a ruthless fixer
Peter Stothard’s penetrating biography could not be more apposite in this age of political turmoil
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback