Book Review
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa