Artillery Row
The return of the sacred
The British monarchy is defying secular modernity
Mourning in Mendoza
The Queen’s global reach
Royal pomp and circumstance
What is it for?
Airbnbeebiegeebies
You never know what to expect from a rented kitchen
Labour and monarchy
Not the relationship one might think
The day after
Mourning that befits her memory
Franz Schubert: String quintet/Quartettsatz (Chandos)
Intimations of life’s fragility
Sharp dressed man
Nick Cave sounds as good as ever
The shows should go on
Would the Queen want us to cancel events?
Are the Left the REAL racistz?
Right-wingers adopting identity politics are doing the bidding of the left
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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
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say