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The uses and abuses of nostalgia
The old like to think they had it harder, but secretly feel they had it better, too
Private schools are a waste of money
Both Left and Right overstate their effect on educational ability and achievements in later life
Stirring the melting pot
Ethnicity pay gap reporting is a terrible idea, so why won’t it go away?
Dreamy spires
Oxford’s brilliant modern buildings
Henryk Mikolai Gorecki: Piano pieces (Accord)
A furious, unfiltered revelation of the experimental heart of a familiar composer
It’s a flying shame
A travel editor gives up planes… for a year
A roaring monster
Letters from the Falklands front: Trauma and machismo continue to define the Malvinas issue in Argentina
Studio: Victorian architecture in Ulster
The undiscovered 19th century wonders of Northern Ireland
War of attrition
The conflict in Ukraine may yet end in stalemate
The truth about the Grand Mufti’s visit to the UK
Shakwi Allam speaks the language of religious pluralism to western audiences, but sanctions persecution within Egypt
Most Read
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
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China