If there’s one thing that unites elite British artists today, it’s that they’re all performatively woke or shamefully silent

As England prepare to face the “old enemy” at Wembley, its impact on the nation’s mood — and our wider politics — cannot be underestimated

Graham Stewart and Boris Starling discuss the forthcoming Lions tour of South Africa

Social distancing means something different up here

A supposedly honest election post-mortem is a symptom of the party’s problems

Jordan Peterson’s trouble with his publisher will look mild when compared with Donald Trump’s impending book

This collection of British music is what they should be playing over the speakers at Heathrow Airport

The winner of the Wolfson Prize for History significantly advances neither our knowledge of Toussaint Louverture nor Haiti

The drives behind the Victorian periodical press and penny literature

Frequent hyperbole means the media would struggle to describe a genuine disaster