How to nix the nats
Governments should stop indulging the SNP
Canterbury Tales redux
Pilgrimage still serves to bring people together
Why I fear this censors’ charter
Nadine Dorries’s chilling Online Safety Bill invites professional activists to wipe anything they deem wrongthink from the internet
In praise of ageing handymen
The quiet comforts of local community
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 9 (Hallé)
VW will never catch on beyond Anglophiles — ask not the reason why
Tanks a lot
“War is the original human state,” Russian directors seem to say
Illiteracy of the tax-cut lobby
Slashing taxes cannot make a nation better off. Instead we must increase production
Can feminists please drop the Handmaid habit?
Feminists’ adoption of Margaret Atwood’s red cape serves only to obscure the complex real-life issues around women’s rights
The power of the pageant
Our enchanted, sometimes absurd, monarchy is one of the last focuses of common cultural experience
Dodgy deals and a suspect stele
There is an infinite number of ways of conning collectors, investors and even institutions too
Harold Pinter: from bad to verse
The playwright will not be remembered for his poetry
Do we need a trade deal with the US?
Now is the time for the UK to reassess priorities