Auction houses
The lockdown boom in an empty room
Auction houses have enjoyed a stellar pandemic, but could their online success prove a curse?
Dilyn the Dog goes to conference
Remember, there’s no difference between Team Rishi and Team Tory
Hard Labour
Industrial scale drinking, courting communists and winning the “Golden Bollock”
The Crimean War
Professor Jeremy Black on how Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire found themselves fighting together in the Crimea
Is transphobia an academic critique?
The abhorrent treatment of Kathleen Stock by Sussex UCU is a loss for academic freedom
It’s time to resurrect forgiveness
The Critic Narrated: Episode Two, with Revd. Marcus Walker, Hannah Betts and Patrick Galbraith
A better way for Britain
Global Britain loses out on the possible benefits of Brexit: the creation of a cooperative, triangulated, Regional Britain
Gaullism at a crossroads
The French Right faces its old demons and its moment of truth
Man with the van
Thomas Woodham-Smith on the trade’s true mavericks
Making the hard choices
Tony Blair was right to take on the Taliban after 9/11
Turning caretakers into killers
Baroness Meacher’s Assisted Dying Bill offers no real safeguards for the most vulnerable patients
Born left
With love, and money, and mobilised state action, True Jeremy can happen