How I discovered Art and Architecture
Daniel Johnson reflects on the great discoveries of his youth
How I discovered classical music
Daniel Johnson describes the joy of indulging in music as a teenage boy
Myths of the Prophet Max
Daniel Johnson on the life and work of Max Weber, whose controversial views on democracy still resonate today
A path open to us all
Daniel Johnson reviews Wagner’s Parsifal, by Roger Scruton
A brave voice against the barbarians
David Pryce-Jones recalls a life of literary friendships and the defence of Western civilisation
The twin prophets of pessimism
The novelist and the philosopher linked by a common fascination with despair
A very English intellectual
For all his European frame of reference George Steiner stayed in Cambridge for a very good reason
A brilliant life of ideas, insight and politics
Gertrude Himmelfarb: an intellectual giant who believed history could save us
Poet who wrote for all of us
Daniel Johnson says that Clive James’s enduring legacy is his verse
The intellectual who underrated the voters
Philosopher turned pragmatist, my great friend Oliver Letwin has been an enigma for much of his political career
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
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
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
A bore film
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is not just ahistorical, it is dull
Revolution in the Academy
The quest for knowledge, not power, ought to guide academia
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Ethnic identity is fine, as long as you’re not English
In the corridors of power, every ethnic grievance is welcome — except for the concerns of the English
