Churchill
Havana splendid time
On the joy of cigar smoking
BBC embattled in Donmar’s latest
A new production delves into the tense relationship between the BBC and Stanley Baldwin’s government.
Orwell: my self-help guru
Slavery should be reinstated so that it can be abolished by a queer woman of colour
Perspectives on Churchill
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Winston Churchill’s career up to 1940
History wars
Churchill’s statue was attacked because he symbolises the continuity of the nation
Culture wars are about our society
The notion of collective racial guilt undermines all institutions
The small matter of Britain’s interest in China
To many Britons, China is a large country, far away
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
