British culture
The regime slop of daytime TV
Establishment propaganda is being forced down the throats of the old, the ill and the unemployed
In praise of the middlebrow
Sometimes, a television show really does deserve the hype
Must we burn Samuel Pepys?
What the Pepys censors fail to grasp about the Restoration era
British comedy can’t keep up with the modern world
The return of the Mock the Week is strange and sad
Let’s start a new chapter for independent bookshops
We must do more to protect businesses that are not just essential for readers but for local communities
Thomas Skinner’s mental health revolution
What can a good walk do for the men of Britain?
The perpetual adolescence of the childfree
No one has to be a parent — but reasons for childlessness can still be immature
Into the Boomerverse
Older commentators cannot understand how younger people experience the UK
A nostalgic Scottish Christmas
Comfort and Joy is a feel-good film in dark times
Art must be rescued from identity
We should celebrate artists for what they do, not who they are
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
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
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb