Ben Kingsley
21st century villains
The Walliams dilemma
Most Read
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide