Culture
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
Strap In, or Strap On?
Why is Prince Harry publishing a memoir?
They’re not laughing now
Without taxpayer handouts, will the arts finally be forced to give people what they want?
Only collect
The key to successful selling is to cultivate collectors
Original sin
Robert Thicknesse on the woes of modern, British opera
The pain gain
In today’s pop world trauma is an asset
Publish — or be damned
There’s no wonder that books are becoming more conformist when freedom of expression is being curtailed
Ignoring race won’t help anything
The dangers of pathological altruism
Full of Eastern promise
Out with the old, in with the new: Michael Prodger on art collection trends
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
