1920s
A new lost decade
Echoes of the 1920s are growing louder and unless we act, we may repeat the complacency of the 1930s too
A Wodehousian pick-me-up
Noel Coward and Friends: A Marvellous Party (Signum Classics)
Jiving in the ruins
This dazzling album features young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin
G.K. Chesterton and the pandemic
The prince of paradox predicted the absurdities of Covid lockdowns
Smashed stereotypes or revisionist reveries?
Why judge prohibitionists by their words when we can judge them by their actions?
Joseph Roth’s golden twenties
When Hitler came to power, the bubble burst
Size isn’t necessarily substance
Gatsby aside, F. Scott Fitzgerald — the Jazz-Age chronicler — is dispensable
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?