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Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
Snapshot of the PM who killed his party
History is a wonderful guide to political practice in the present, just so long as nothing is different
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
The soaraway success of scoops and smut
Tabloid sensibility wasn’t just about visual presentation, it was also about the way stories were written
The warp and weft of women’s history
This synthesising project downplays the variety of experience amongst ancient women
Crossroads of history
Cyprus is an island of contradictions, and the more we learn about it, the more paradoxical it becomes
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
How to take on the culture warriors
Determining what is and isn’t appropriate is not the job of thought-policing left authoritarians
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician