Artillery Row
The sad reign of Ian Hislop
Appointed for his youth, he has become symbolic of cultural gerontocracy
Beyond the spires
Oxford is full of architectural riches
Album of the year
The best of an inspiringly musical 2023
Do not forget Armenia
Why has an act of blatant ethnic cleansing been widely ignored?
What’s missing in Bradley Cooper’s Maestro
The film should not have ignored the political and musical context to Bernstein’s life
Murders for December
A cornucopia of killings for the Christmas season
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s doomed Europe
His writing beautifully describes the older Europe that we lost
The American decade
The 1990s marked post-Cold War triumph for the States, but choppy waters were ahead
The death of dystopia
Fictional nightmares can provide childish escapism rather than harsh truths
Gutless humanism
In their war on all things religious, Humanists UK likes to pick soft targets
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation