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The rats and cowards who brought down a Titan
Simon Heffer on the final instalment of Charles Moore’s Thatcher biography and Paul Corthorn’s ‘Enoch Powell’
Digging up Franco, burying history
The resurgent Spanish left wants to exhume the former dictator’s remains and even outlaw any favourable mention of his legacy
Rebel Rouser
Titania joins Extinction Rebellion
The theatre of inconvenience
The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage
Darren against Remain’s Goliath
Abused as a criminal and fined £20,000 by the regulator, a hero of Brexit has been vindicated
An adult view of monarchy
The artistic achievement of ‘The Crown’ has been undervalued
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
Naughty but nice
Every six months or so opera surfaces from its undersea lair, like a Bond villain, to enter public consciousness — generally when it’s been naughty.
Scribbler with a gift for women
Tibor Fischer reviews ‘The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson’
Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
