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
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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
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
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was