Adaption
Is Jane Austen getting a bum deal?
As the new Emma comes to cinema screens, Alexander Larman considers the innumerable Austen remakes over the past 25 years
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
