Chess
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
The Queen’s Gambit
Why women’s chess matters
Chairman of the board
Magnus Carlsen’s recent triumph proves chess is a dynamic sport
Why you should add chess to your home school curriculum
It is strange to think that a piece of wood on a board can be so emblematic of what it means to be human
Closing the books
Thomas Woodham-Smith finds the latest research is online
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together