In the court of the Mughal emperor
Why remember the embarrassing first steps of a giant?
The long shadow of the Great Helmsman
Frank Dikötter’s China is perpetually over-leveraged, over-producing and overdue a bust
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
Cricket’s triple threat
Some have the granddaddy knack
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Hatred and mental illness are not mutually exclusive
Violent men being mentally ill need not make broader societal phenomena irrelevant
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
