Artillery Row
Are the Beatles still underrated?
If Lennon and McCartney had never met, Britain would have been more boring and less colourful
The Universities and the need for reform
The institutions that survive the crisis need to make radical changes
The Italian model
Did Chinese migrant labour in the fashion industry bring Covid-19 to Europe?
Britain needs the Jewish Chronicle
The JC is halfway between a shul and a shvitz
A paean to Spain and Italy during troubled times
On the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage I saw the delights of the countries most cruelly ransacked by Coronavirus
Waking up in Bardland
Fifty years of the RSC: Reflections in a time of corona
A positive thought
Theodore Dalrymple finds a reason to be cheerful
The designated survivor
Churchill’s stroke in 1953 does not create a workable precedent for Dominic Raab to follow
Controlling crises
How do governments of past, present, national and international deal with crises?
What does Labour’s new team mean for Brexit?
Sir Keir purges traces of Brexit sympathy from his front bench
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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
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
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
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z