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BlobWatch season approaches
The National Trust is well on its way to becoming another soulless corporate body
Can Cambridge cope with Jordan Peterson?
His visit tests the self-appointed judiciary of acceptable ideas
The scatalogical subversive
Magritte’s work is no more socially potent than dog-mess on a doorstep
Size isn’t necessarily substance
Gatsby aside, F. Scott Fitzgerald — the Jazz-Age chronicler — is dispensable
Battle of the leftists
Which group of non-teachers run the universities: Vice-chancellors or UCU leaders?
What happened to sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll?
Music today is anodyne compared to the heydays of Britpop and the sixties and seventies
Renaud Capucon: Un violon à Paris (Warner Classics)
Taken together, it’s not the kind of music you want to hear in isolation
French Fancies
Is the Navy really open to all?
Digging a new scene
Thomas Woodham-Smith discovers the joys of gardenalia
Chaos Begat Chaos In Kenosha
Kyle Rittenhouse isn’t a cause, but a consequence
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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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 online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans