Archives
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
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
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall