Christopher Columbus
Refuting the flat Earth fallacy
This rollicking adventure indicts lazy and self-satisfied readings of the past
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean