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Time the Old Gang departed
The Amis/Barnes/McEwan generation have dominated the book scene for too long
The gossip must go on
Lockdown tales from our showbusiness mole
Fear and longing for life after lockdown
This beautiful city has never felt so ugly, with spies everywhere
Real life seems distant now
Marooned by the pandemic, a war reporter looks for silver linings
Hurrah for small decencies
Local suspicion is outweighed by the kindness of others
China travels and travails
Rana Mitter reviews The China Journals and The Colour of the Sky After Rain
Unequal to the task
Jamie Whyte reviews Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
Midnight spice
Christopher Pincher is thankful for the South Australian vineyards
A real show-stopper
Thomas Woodham-Smith is forced to pack up and go home
Home-school Hell
Claudia Savage-Gore is locked down with lesson plans, three kids – and no cleaner
Most Read
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
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping