Artillery Row
Feminist art historians get Artemisia Gentileschi wrong
Contemporary feminist art theory: little help in understanding a seventeenth century artist
Mapping the past
The new edition of Tom Harper’s ‘Atlas: A World of Maps’ is an instructive as well as attractive volume
The roaring boy Macbeth
Why Peter O’Toole’s 1980 performance at the Old Vic is remembered for all the wrong reasons
What follows the abolition of fixed-term parliaments?
Will the Supreme Court seize the power to adjudicate on the calling of general elections?
The First Friend
How the taxpayer funds Nimco Ali
Free speech is under threat in Northern Ireland
New hate crime proposals could make Northern Ireland the least free part of the UK
How the Second World War was mapped
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about a vital factor in wartime production that military history often overlooks
The BBC’s worst mistake
A separate channel dedicated to British sport could have saved the BBC
Memoir of a troubled woman
Friends and Enemies by Barbara Amiel is an extraordinary work of self-revelation
Etone for your sins
“Vulva owners”, Eton’s woke head master, and the BBC’s hagiography of BLM
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform