Culture
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
A great tribute to a giant of the theatre
Two major revivals of Tom Stoppard’s work
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards