Bob Dylan and the mystery of traditional music
In becoming Bob Dylan, Robert Zimmerman entered a mysterious, invisible world
In search of Graceland
Paul Simon’s journey to a gentle spirituality
Beware of false prophets
Why are we so drawn to gurus?
Tolkien and environmentalism
The author of The Lord of the Rings despaired of the modern world
Wartime hallelujah
Creativity amid conflict
How can Athens reclaim the Parthenon marbles?
The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis can only counter logic with more logic
Time to forget?
Remembrance day is like an arts and craft spin-off of the Great British Bake-Off
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of