Classics
Looking back at Medusa
Myths are more malleable than statues
A little too mature
In Brideshead, the overriding feeling is that surely the punchline is to come. It never does
Latin hero of love-torn teenagers
Tibor Fischer reviews A Thousand Kisses by Frederic Raphael
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken