Cousin marriage
Is “love is love” only for white people?
The Tories have suddenly discovered the book of Leviticus
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
