blood sport
Ancient rites in Madrid
The oldest of stories still attract us
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
More shenanigans at the RIBA
Ideologues and marketers are ruining the Royal Institute of British Architects
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
