Holy wars and unlikely alliances
The Crusades were not a straightforward clash of civilisations: both sides were too internally divided
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Most Read
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
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
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction