Book Review
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then