The regeneration game
A hideous babel of gimmicky buildings that scream: “Me! Me! Me!”
Call the junk-monger
The trashy Downing Street makeover is a criminal act of hideous uglification
Opiate of the masses
TV has become a branch of the pharmaceutical industry doling out heavy sedatives
Sex and the singular fisherman
Pike abound in British rivers yet are seldom caught for the table
Short cut to a Mob takeover
Today the multiply-tattooed Balkan war criminal look is popular
Power to the pigs and les keufs
France is competing with the UK to be every bit as draconian and liberty-infringing
The meek inherit nothing
Islamism is increasingly held not to be a deviant from Islam, but an orthodox aim of the “religion of peace”
In praise of the Midlands
The Midlands are hurried through, unappreciated on the way to somewhere else
From major to minor
Who’s minor and who’s major reveal the power of collective prejudice
History in the Age of Woke
Macron aims to rewrite history, with Britain not far behind
The Lost Bohemians
Arabella Byrne asks if the modern world still has room for artistic outlaws
Is Hollywood bullying the next #MeToo?
New revelations about Hollywood producer Scott Rudin are a sad but unsurprising indictment on the entire industry and its practices
Britain’s armed forces during the rise of Hitler
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the state and preparedness of Britain’s armed forces in the lead-up to the Second World War
A correctional facility
Who, exactly, is being corrected by an execution?
Full of Eastern promise
Out with the old, in with the new: Michael Prodger on art collection trends
July 2021: Letters to the Editor
Peter Hitchens says the West was bullied into using the name “Beijing” instead of “Peking”
Swift reprise
Swift’s latest project is even more interesting than the imaginary motherhood album she pinned her hopes on
Follow the money
We need to reset the overseas development aid discussion
Taking on New Labour
20 years since Dr Richard Taylor won in the Wyre Forest
Murders for late May
From psychological character studies to witty and fast-paced detective novels, Jeremy Black rounds up the best crime fiction for late Spring