Critics
Singing lessons
Spare us the social justice preaching
Rats desert a thriving ship
The space for criticism to exist grows smaller and the archways that sustained its presence crumble away, laments Sarah Ditum
Doing time
British prison sentences must be taken with a generous pinch of salt
Where do you draw the line?
The West should think twice before providing endless weaponry to Ukraine
The unification of Germany
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the path of German unification, from the failed revolutions of 1848 to the creation of Bismarck’s Reich
Winning the culture war in the American South
American conservatives have tried a new technique to team the statue-toppling social justice warriors dominating universities
The last jubilee?
Many of us will never live to see a jubilee again — what will sustain the Windsors without spectacle?
Britain has been betrayed
Our country’s fortunes aren’t falling — they were pushed
The Roman roots of the English church
Perhaps two new church histories have a salutary message for today’s C of E
Boris will be Boris … again
How to end up a happy ex-prime minister
Murders for June
Classic settings conceal psychological rawness and sinuously convoluted mysteries
Can Putin’s conductor redeem himself?
Gergiev’s road to redemption
Good God, I can’t publish this…
The ancient art of the literary rejection