Art Festivals
A very superior Season
Today’s Season may be more democratic and international than the old, but those in the know still cherish the hot tickets that guarantee exclusivity
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Those WhatsApp groups in full
Thirteen reasons to ban politicians from smartphones
Bring back the Law Lords
Tony Blair’s introduction of a US-style Supreme Court has served to undermine the supremacy of Parliament
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
