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Could Harry and Meghan have learnt from Edward and Wallis?
Graham Stewart and Alexander Larman discuss how the House of Windsor adapts and endures
In search of Old Mistresses
The National Gallery is putting women artists centre stage
Anyone for abdication?
A vivid retelling of an infamous constitutional crisis
The wrong sort of women
View from Oxford: some new arrivals may feel less welcome than others
Rats desert a thriving ship
The space for criticism to exist grows smaller and the archways that sustained its presence crumble away, laments Sarah Ditum
Women directors screened out
Christopher Silvester on Mark Cousins’s latest documentary
Is there such a thing as right-wing comedy?
The issue of political balance in comedy is no laughing matter
What made eighteenth century Britain such an innovative society?
And how did Britain become a trendsetting nation?
A grim chorus of philistines
Rishi’s £1.57 Billion handout to the arts sector is the last good news it’ll ever hear, says Robert Thicknesse
Why can’t California control predictable fires?
California’s rulers again shift the blame to conservatives rather than admit their own incompetence
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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
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword