Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
It’s still a wonderful life
An uplifting Christmas classic never fails to move
Scares and spies
From ghostly thrills to Cold War chills
An entertaining oddity
If you can see past the water-based sex, The Lady From The Sea is worth watching
Life in the press gang
A scattergun memoir with the decline of newspapers as gloomy backdrop
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country