The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Misguided mission to explain
How can James Payne teach us how to use our eyes when he shies away from stating visible truths?
Mass critical
Pope Francis’s campaign against the Latin Mass was always disingenuous
The disorder of succession
The war against Catholic traditionalists has done terrible damage to the Church
Standing side by side with angels
Like Lucifer, Pico thought himself too brilliant to stand below angels in God’s Hierarchy
Prayer and Pikachu in London
A Catholic conference exposed divisions in the Church
Among the MAGA avant-garde
How will the dissident right shape American culture in the age of Trump?
The Bard at Christmas
It is impossible to appreciate Shakespeare without acknowledging his Christian foundations
A commanding life
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
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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
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
How to reform the NHS
Britain must take inspiration from the Netherlands
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Mehta’s protest over the Gaza war
In the run-up to his 90th birthday, Zubin Mehta decided to sever contact with Israel
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming