Anne Applebaum
A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism
György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy
No happy endings
Our worst sin has been to be weak, rather than merely to be wrong
We have to be more precise about progress
What sort of progress do we want, and how are we going to get it?
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Irish women are being stripped of constitutional rights
Article 41.2 makes maternity leave a woman’s right, not an obligation, so why do so-called “progressives” want to get rid of it?