Descent into hell
In Venezuela, socialism’s gruesome legacy is no academic question
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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.
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history