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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles