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The British Twitter Stasi
Police forces should not be secretly recording my tweets as ‘hate incidents’
Quiet, you’ll get yours in a minute
He’d have wanted “Dropping the Pilot”
“But is it good for the Jews?” Why Dom Cummings departure probably is
Toby Young was a huge fan of Dominic Cummings. The lockdown changed his mind
The writings of Lewis and Tolkien embody conservative environmentalism
The Conservative party were once the country party. They could be again. It might even net them some votes
Murders for the onset of shorter days
Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’
Seven kinds of people you find in bookshops
Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people
Little cup of perfection
Lisa Hilton praises a divine lunch in Santiago de Compostela
Wheeling and spieling
Thomas Woodham-Smith breaks the antique shop silence
Is the National Trust losing the nation’s trust?
If the National Trust is tired of promoting “heritage” what can be done to remind it of its purpose?
Brideshead Revisited, Revisited
Compared to his peers, Evelyn Waugh has not had the range or quality of adaptations that he deserves
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
