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A study in radical rhetoric
We can disagree with Annie Ernaux’s politics while saying she deserves her Nobel Prize
A fabulous box of geeky delights
Historic house inventories provide a remarkable insight into building histories
Tabloid fiction
A new book on journalism gets it wrong
Englishness with an aftertaste
The pleasures of cowpats
Glowing, noble and assured
A tribute to Victorian churches
Why I’m blacker than Dr King
And bolder than Gandhi
The moment of truth
We need to be honest about the reality of the kill
Murders for February
Gripping books and the promise of another
Sense and sensitivity
Some readers need thicker skins
These children did not matter
A fine film exposes grooming gangs and their enablement
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly