British Library
A long shelf life
Our need for physical books is greater than ever
Murder stories for December days
Jeremy Black makes his way through the British Library’s Crime Classics collection
Murders for the onset of shorter days
Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’
Unfinished Business at the British Library
The British Library’s new exhibition on feminism is like being hit with a rolled-up copy of Spare Rib
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism