British culture
Cultural institutions are offering kindergarten radicalism
Feel-good clichés are being embraced as revolutionary wisdom
The rise of sectarian social media
A sectarian media environment is forming to enable our sectarian politics
You have a patriotic duty to champion British food
Insulting British cuisine is not just lazy, it is downright libellous
Britain needs Thomas Skinner
The country needs some optimism in miserable times
What really makes us British?
There is more to our national identity than warm beer and fish and chips
Why Easter should matter to us all
Its themes are relevant to everyone, not just to the religious
Low mimetic nation
Why Britain keeps mistaking TV for real life
Goodwill hunting
Could the vibe shift be spreading through British culture?
Serious silliness
Five decades of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Who are the household names now?
Cultural fragmentation has led to a decline in shared knowledge
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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
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
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill