British culture
Building a house on rock
Danny Kruger was right about Britain and Christianity
Christianity is a culture
Christianity is not just a private faith, nor a set of traditions, but a way of individual and collective life
Britain’s identity crisis goes beyond immigration
Most of us, not just minorities, have lost our sense of being meaningfully British
The world’s greatest classical music festival?
This is democracy manifest
Against the new witch-hunt in the arts
Art, if it means anything, must be more than propaganda
Bob Vylan are a product of the establishment
The controversial duo are more tedious than frightening
The refounding of Britain
Sentimental myth-making will not paper over the cracks in British society
Museum of horrors
The Acropolis Museum does not deserve the Elgin Marbles
After the carnival
This year’s edition of Liverpool Biennial marks the end of contemporary art’s authority over contemporary life
The process of yookay-ification
Our author takes a personal tour around an emerging country
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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
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
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.
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan