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The crisis in foreign language studies
How the old tradition of wassailing might actually benefit orchards
Et tu, Anas?
McSweeney is out — and so are the knives
Neither good nor serious
Against the Lost Cause Myth of Starmerism
Who gets to be British?
Jeevun Sandher’s attempt to declare Matt Goodwin “not very British” reveals a shallow, ahistorical and politically convenient vision of the nation
Pedro Sánchez is not the saviour of the left
The Spanish prime minister has built a model based on maintaining a minority government at any cost
Call for the King
Why the Restoration and Renewal Programme is mad, bad, dangerous for Parliament and must be stopped
The mad mental health policy
Failures in legislation and risk management
How to live better
Prosperity through Growth: Boosting Living Standards in
an Age of Autocracy and AI
The genre that came in from the cold
Why we love spy fiction
A cherishable dream
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (Hyperion)
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected