Country House
How Evelyn Waugh saved the English country house
The improbable democratisation of an aristocratic institution
The ultimate luxury
Clive Aslet says the Barclay brothers were prescient when they built their grand private castle on Brecqhou. Today, true privacy is something only serious money can buy
The future of Britain’s stately homes
How has the coronavirus pandemic affected Britain’s country houses?
Another Country
Fiona Duncan loves hotels that do things differently
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets