Austro-Hungarian Empire
Land of his birth
Little of the Hungarian aristocrats’ world remains, except a few crumbling buildings — and Count Bánffy’s stories
Love and death in Vienna
Spanish flu killed Schiele and Klimt. Their art sensed the brevity of life and the doom of their society
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Worldviews apart
There are disturbing differences between how British Muslims and non-Muslims see the world
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system