The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Thinly-veiled but enjoyable nonsense
Donald Trump should write a novel to at least give him the chance to deliver a bit of payback for this release by Hillary Clinton
Samuel Beckett
A prize-winning old fraud
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion