Artillery Row
The National Tutoring Programme: the most radical education policy yet?
How will increased 1-on-1 learning fit into the future of education?
Portugal’s bookish dictator
At least in the eyes of his supporters, António de Oliveira Salazar succeeded in making Portugal great again
The Church of Woke
The Black Lives Matter movement’s ideology is at odds with much of what the Anglican church holds dear
A guide to the plangent lineaments of love
Matthew Adams reviews The Liar’s Dictionary, by Eley Williams
The man who reinvented India
On 99th anniversary of PV Narasimha Rao’s birth it is time to rehabilitate a traduced politician
A tribute to Owen Harries
In memoriam
Brideshead Revisited at 75
In its combination of glacial beauty and lovelorn desperation, Brideshead Revisited speaks to all readers, Alexander Larman writes
An essential record
Norman Lebrecht reviews Shostakovich: Violin concertos 1&2, performed by Alina Ibragimova and the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia
Cancel HBO
HBO Max’s cancelling of Gone With the Wind in the wake of George Floyd’s murder is outrageous, Paul du Quenoy writes
Saved for posterity
John Bowers reviews Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries, by Rebecca Abrams and Cesar Merchan-Hamann
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications