A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
Hamlet is not about resistance
Why Riz Ahmed’s reading gets the play wrong
A clinical note on Trump Derangement Syndrome
Advice on how to avoid and manage the condition
The cant of Old Canterbury
Invoking art, history, and faith is no substitute for facing the realities of mass migration
Supervisory moralism at the cinema
The films of Paul King manage thorny political problems through children’s fantasies
Star-crossed Labour
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are a classic doomed couple
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The great betrayal
MAGA will always be Trump’s, but how much is an ever-shrinking coalition actually worth?
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties