Artillery Row
Why does reading matter?
Books are not just a means to a morally superior end
Divorced, Defected, Danny!
Have a little faith
Tosca without terror
Tosca, Royal Opera
Kemi’s loss is Reform’s gain
Danny Kruger has created a nightmare on Matthew Parker Street
Nick, 30 ans, wants a driverless tube
Sometimes we just need to do something for Nick
Resist the language police!
Why are my words being censored by WhatsApp?
The power of fun
The forgotten language of political festivity
The life of a beautiful home
A history of Barholm Castle is heartwarming and inspiring
Journeys and generations
Life, for all its struggles, offers us the chance to be part of something glorious
Tranquil and haunted
Arvo Pärt: And I heard a voice (ECM)
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not