Land of ghosts and legends
In search of Crusaders in chainmail and a city of the dead in the Caucasus Mountains
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
