Artillery Row
The Mirror of #MeToo
Luciano Garbati’s new work expresses a widespread decline in symbolic literacy
Are conservatives losing?
Conservative parties may be good at winning elections but have they lost the argument?
Starring Chelsea Peretti as Herself
The moments of interruption in Peretti’s stand-up reveal the constructedness of what we are watching
A series of unfortunate cancellations
Has the vanguard of wokeism taken over the realm of academic publishing?
Are we still talking to the EU?
Government spin is mixing the Brexit divorce agreement with the trade deal
You’ll get tired of the Not Talking
What if the real Brexit drama was … over a long time ago?
Are fictional politicians as interesting as the real thing?
Sir David Hare’s new BBC drama feels small-scale when we are surrounded by far more impressive real-life spectacles
Michaelmas Mayhem
View from Oxford: the beginning of a year unlike any other
The divisiveness of Five Pillars
The UK’s chief website for British Muslim news sows more division than unity
The sword of justice cuts both ways
Unexplained Wealth Orders reverse the burden of proof
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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
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries