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The tragic downfall of Lord Alfred Douglas
The 20th-anniversary edition of Douglas Murray’s Bosie remains the seminal account of the tragic life of Lord Alfred Douglas
From Gaucho to Rive Gauche and Back Again
Dominic Hilton discovers the extraordinary life and times of “Gaucho Laird”, R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Maggi Hambling’s sculpture is simply bad art
Perhaps if it were a simply better artwork, then Hambling’s statue would have been more warmly received
Smart work from the Old Vic
The Old Vic shows the way
A pair of Czech masterpieces
Two new Czech masterpieces
There’s a Matt for That
Nurturing the flame of the candle of hope
It’s time to shake up Britain’s industrial intervention policy
The National Security and Investment Bill is a great first step towards ensuring Britain’s long-term economic prosperity
The great Rugby School library sale
As Rugby School prepares to auction off some of its most prized literary possessions, one must wonder what Dr Arnold would have to say
The sound of silence
View from Oxford: a letter to the Vice-Chancellor
The historical role of the maîtresse-en-titre
Nigel Jones looks at how the mistresses and girlfriends of rulers have exerted political power throughout history
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Murders for August
From killers down under to death across the pond
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
