Chariots of Fire
His race is run
ASH Smyth remembers Ben Cross, Harold Abrahams, and the impact Chariots of Fire had on his 10-year-old self
Prize-winner reprises and rediscovered tales
From Young Mungo to The Candy House: three new novels to read this month
Notes from a client kingdom
Britain is a sad sunless satrapy of the American empire
Britain, 2049
You’ll own nothing, and you won’t be particularly happy about it
The final furlong
Horse racing is in existential crisis
It’s grim down South
Rakib’s Britain: Never mind the Red Wall, let’s talk about the East-West divide and a forgotten England
Blessed by fire?
Letters from the Falklands front: Feelings about the war in Argentina are both tragic and triumphant
Happy Malvinas Day
Letters from the Falklands front: storming the embassy?
Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the role of Prussia in the eighteenth century
A radical reframing of conservative tradition
Yoram Hazony’s purified conservatism risks losing touch with political reality
Fat chance
Plus-sized actors and theatres rattling the begging bowl
British past or American future?
Aussies have some soul-searching to do this Jubilee