Castles
Normandy’s English connection
The region combines ancient and modern splendours with an eye turned ever northwards
The Fortified Palace
Professor Jeremy Black talks about the fortified palaces and manor houses of the sixteenth century
The ultimate luxury
Clive Aslet says the Barclay brothers were prescient when they built their grand private castle on Brecqhou. Today, true privacy is something only serious money can buy
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
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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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Lessons on being a rule-taker
The EU reset undermines Brexit and Britain
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?