The BBC, a class apart
Michael Collins says the corporation is fighting the wrong war, as usual
Down with the Crown
The Sussexes are just one minor factor among a number that could ultimately lead to the demise of the monarchy
Why I’m no longer talking to black people about race
The race debate has been taken over by grifters with a vested interest in a booming equalities industry
American Utopia
Facts are overlooked in American Utopia’s HBO concert film to accommodate the systemic white racism narrative
A quick exit…
Our way of death has become increasingly mawkish. Far better to opt for a swift cremation, without frills or power ballads
America’s Southern Gothic Moment
Why is the American south still regarded as repository for all the shortcomings of America?
The wrong kind of race murder
It’s double standards that the killing of white schoolboy Richard Everitt achieved none of the notoriety of Stephen Lawrence’s death
Teens on screen
The coming of age genre is experiencing a renaissance
Lana Del Rey’s poetic dream
The news is bad, but on Del Rey’s watch the poetry is sometimes pretty good, and getting better
Ripley returns
Rejoice, Ripley is back! But why are we so drawn to Patricia Highsmith’s anti-hero?
Alexei Stanchinsky: Piano works (Ondine)
Stanchinsky occupies a tonal territory midway between Rachmaninov and Scriabin; an amalgam of suppurating misery and crackpot visionary
The forgotten art of the handwritten letter
The humble handwritten letter has made a comeback during the coronavirus pandemic – but will it last?
We aren’t being served
The closure of Jenners of Edinburgh is an object lesson in how to kill the department store
The New Keynesian inflation experiment
A post-pandemic surge in US asset prices has settled an old economics argument: boosting the money supply does lead to higher prices
Is the age of the single-sex boarding school over?
As Winchester College prepares to turn co-educational, Alexander Larman asks if single-sex boarding schools may soon become a thing of the past
Are UK dons hopelessly naive on China?
Beijing’s growing influence means hard choices are going to get harder for the Government
Why are so many actors and filmmakers being cancelled?
From Kevin Spacey to Armie Hammer, why are those in Hollywood facing the axe of cancel culture more than ever before?
Will Cecil Rhodes survive the baying mob?
View from Oxford: whether Rhodes falls or stands there will come from competing corners criticism, ridicule, and contempt
The day my terrier found internet fame
Why do some videos go viral while others slide into oblivion?
Make a bonfire of Dr Seuss
Titania McGrath on how book burning is the only way to defeat fascism