At last, I get to join the class war
Down with the mangies, the most craven and unfree of ruling classes
Good old New Society
It was a magazine whose influence extended beyond its readership
The joys of the virus
Can enforced idleness make us less stressed and more contemplative?
Waking up in Bardland
Fifty years of the RSC: Reflections in a time of corona
The psychopathology of international organsisations
What the IOC and FIFA can teach us about the EU
Cities risen from ashes
75 years after the Dresden bombings, Lincoln Allison discusses the raising of razed cities
Why the English should support Scottish independence
The irrational tendencies of human beings involves a confusion between sovereignty, property and identity
When Political Families Fall Out
Has the dysfunctional family replaced the dynastic one in politics?
UBI is a pipe dream that would bankrupt the nation
Universal Basic Income would wreck the economy
Is Boris’s New Deal the real deal?
How quickly can the government pile-drive the economy into recovery?
Ripley returns
Rejoice, Ripley is back! But why are we so drawn to Patricia Highsmith’s anti-hero?
All dressed up and raring to go
A brilliant, ambitious volume of art history — but physically difficult to read
Unwelcome rise of a truly awful artist
Jacob Willer examines the extravagant claims made about an Italian painter hailed as the saviour of revivalism
Is this the end for the National Trust?
Proposed money-generating changes could be the demise of a national treasure
How Hollywood managed to celebrate German culture in 1954
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s musical coming out just nine years after the end of World War II invited Germany back into polite society
From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
Passing the Tebbit test
Dominic Lawson reviews 10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator, 1828-2020 by David Butterfield