A Good Read
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Can we balance re-enchantment and reality?
We should not throw out the civilisational baby with the consumerist bathwater
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
Try Christianity
Reflecting on the cross, we find a truth that is often too easy to forget
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Who’s advising the migration advisors?
We deserve more transparency when it comes to who and what influences British immigration policy
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards