British Art
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 9 (Hallé)
VW will never catch on beyond Anglophiles — ask not the reason why
We have forgotten the titans of British cinema
It has fallen to Scorsese to rescue the reputation of Powell and Pressburger
Genuine English opera
‘Peter Grimes’ labours under the weight of national anxieties
Modern-day Ealing comedy
A quintessentially English spirit of wry rebellion lives on in two new films
What do the BAFTAs really stand for?
The awards used to be entertainingly eccentric
Stumbling blocks
Owen Hatherley offers a vital but frequently flawed guide to post-war British architecture
Eric Ravilious: a talent too long ignored
Ravilious’s ethereal, understated paintings are quietly dazzling
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Tame Impala fails to impress
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taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus