Culture
The veneration of Saint Jacinda
Ardern’s career is a foretaste of a quieter and less frightening world in which workplace feminism has triumphed
The joys and misery of Monica
This is not only an objective biography by a distinguished academic, it is also a warm personal memoir
Beating the wrong drum
The dogmatic insistence that unionists are being pushed towards a united Ireland
Why we’re in the state we’re in
Woolly thinking, cloudy expression, and the possibility that great matters are at hand: two books by a pair of Foreign Office grandees
Out of Africa
To get a handle on African cinema, watch Mandabi
Press Gang
Croatia’s war runs like a dark thread through the excellent series ‘The Paper’
Gaslighting London
Westminster City’s plan to replace London’s gaslit routes
Enduring enjoyment
The nostalgia of live sport continues to live on
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves at 30
Is this 1991 blockbuster an underrated masterpiece or kitsch nonsense?
Flawed analysis of illiberal culture
d’Ancona is guilty of the same kind of arrogance and bad faith he identifies in other liberals