Otherworldly talents
Long live the golden age of British television, when great actors imbued classic roles with risky, multifaceted complexity
Tragic hero of Drury Lane
This meticulous account gives Frederick Chatterton a deserved and belated spotlight
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
