Civil Right
The poet and the patrician
Stephen Parkinson reviews The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F Buckley Jr, and the debate over race in America, by Nicholas Buccola
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
