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The beauty of Jeremy Brett
Why any self-respecting heterosexual male needs a man-crush
A new student experience
Covid-19 has left universities in crisis – and provided an opportunity to reform a bloated system
Love and death in Vienna
Spanish flu killed Schiele and Klimt. Their art sensed the brevity of life and the doom of their society
Can Christopher Nolan save the cinema-going experience?
It is not just Nolan’s reputation that is on the line if Tenet is released in July
Protocol questions
Is Ulster how May’s sometime ministers will still get BRINO for Great Britain too?
Neofeudalism and its new legitimisers
Today’s oligarchs depend on a modern, overwhelmingly liberal clerisy for legitimacy
Farewell Hybrid Parliament. Goodbye Scottish MPs?
MPs are to return to Westminster. But will Welsh, Scottish and Ulster MPs come?
My first Carr
A S H Smyth discovers a true English literary eccentric, born on this day in 1912
Waiting for normal
Why lockdown is the perfect time to read Samuel Beckett
A heavenly perspective
Thoughts on the plague with St Pauls’ greatest dean, John Donne
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Still-sparkling gems of an annus mirabilis
Tried and tested novels overlooked in our neophilic rush to the new and wanting
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
How to take on the culture warriors
Determining what is and isn’t appropriate is not the job of thought-policing left authoritarians
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Boiling the British frog
Decline is a process, not a moment
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
