Reflections on the counter-revolution in Finchley
Britain cries out for a leader with Thatcher’s (counter)revolutionary spirit
Top of the pops?
What makes great rock and roll
What do the English think of Englishness?
Graham Cunningham asks why Englishness has failed to garner its own version of the self-flattering national mythology of so many other nations
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Subscribe to save the BBC
A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
