1980s
Mining the past
There is a deep appetite among Britain’s television audience for dramas that tackle complicated social issues
No, THIS is hardcore: UK82 remembered 40 years on
What happened to the early eighties world of doc martins and Mohawks?
The Falklands War
How important was it that Britain won?
So long, Sloanes
The upper-middle-class Rangers who epitomised the Eighties have ridden off into the Wiltshire sunset
Conspiracies against the left
There are no new problems in the New Left, only old solutions in fighting them
An unconvincing case against the UNRWA
It should take more evidence to strip the Palestinians of essential support
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
Who’s advising the migration advisors?
We deserve more transparency when it comes to who and what influences British immigration policy
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
