Features
Sir Roy Strong
The mischievous cultural commentator and diarist who changed the way museums think about the past
The man with a masterplan
The visionary architect Léon Krier, chosen by King Charles to create his model village, Poundbury
Bulldozing Britain’s brand
A lament for the destruction of the magnificent British Embassy building in Bangkok
Auntie at the precipice
The BBC faces a perfect storm of looming threats
A walk on the wild side
My eventful life in a council block
The fading flame of fellowship
An institution at the heart of Oxbridge colleges is in grave danger of disappearing
Cooking the books
Digital-first academic journals undermine the gold standard of scholarship for the sake of profit
Who can rescue the Right?
While Reform might kill the Tory party, it cannot replace it
How Europe failed us
How we reached the Brexit we have
Why France keeps rioting
C’est la vie Parisienne
Most Read
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here