Channel Islands
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
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena