Features
The post-Christian identity crisis
Three books portray a West unconscious of its past and uncertain of its future
Modi’s ghastly Delhi dream
The plan to remodel Lutyens’s grand capital is a monument to conceit
We’re all preppers now
Waiting for a pandemic in West Virginia
The twin prophets of pessimism
The novelist and the philosopher linked by a common fascination with despair
The Man Within
Expect Starmerism to make much more sense in practice than in theory
The “real” Labour Party
Since Blair doesn’t seem to count for many members, they have no positive model of Labour in power
My FGM Hero
On the issue of sexual and other forms of violence against women, Keir Starmer has a sterling record
The Opposition Trap
The next Labour leader will start with the opposite of a blank sheet: an overstuffed, losing manifesto
Five Rules for Ruling
There’s no problem with a witchhunt when there really are witches
Wanted: A new Labour foreign policy
It comes as no surprise that Jeremy Corbyn leapt to Russia’s defence after the Salisbury poisoning
The poster of the century?
Did Saatchi & Saatchi win it for Thatcher?
A flawed masterpiece that will dominate the field
Jeremy Black reviews David Abulafia’s The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
Natural health service
Theodore Dalrymple on the naturalness of what we eat
Woke eugenics
When eco-warriors talk of population control, they mean the world would be better off with fewer poor black people
Sir Roger Scruton – The Last Commission
Sir Roger Scruton’s superhuman approach in the last months of his life
Death of a polymath
The great British opera director Jonathan Miller has died aged 85. Here is one of his last interviews