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Evelyn Waugh was right: British politics went wrong in the 1920s
Why do Waugh’s political works remain either caricatured or ignored?
When you pile tragedy too high, you sell it too cheap
Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery (until 31 October)
Don’t shut our churches again
The Church is the only place we can find true deliverance from Covid
Churches say no to second lockdown
Hundreds of Ministers say closing again would damage congregations and their duty as Christians
Farewell to Utopia
An erudite call to return to a more sceptical and prudential kind of politics
Big Brother versus liberty
Firmin DeBrabander’s philosophical musings are the checklist of a left-wing, “progressive” academic
10 years of Downton Abbey
What insights can period dramas give us into the past?
Get woke, go broke: when cancel culture backfires
The attempted cancellation of James Levine came at a high price for New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
Letter from Washington: Partisan priorities
Americans are talking past one another
Battle of the bells and the boutique hotel
Charles Saumarez Smith on the campaign to save the historic London foundry that produced both Big Ben and the Liberty Bell
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)