Culture
Mr Darcy’s new gig
Perhaps “white privilege” exists after all?
No place for young’uns
Why are pensioners the favoured customer of the National Trust?
Paderewski & Stojowski: Violin Sonatas (CPO)
I would happily subscribe to an emergent series of forgotten Polish treasures if the quality remained this high
Resurrecting the great British sitcom
We are getting dangerously close to saying British sitcom itself should be off limits
Woke identity politics and the corporatist agenda
Vivek Ramaswamy speaks to Oliver Wiseman about the undemocratic nature of corporate woke identity politics
Nikolai Kapustin: 4th piano concerto (Capriccio)
Listening to Kapustin in 2021 is an act of nostalgia, a gesture of defiance to the dictates of fashion
Allsopp’s: the rebirth of the original Burton IPA
The Allsopp family has revived the original Burton IPA which made its name and fortune more than a century ago
Charlie Watts: an unlikely rock star
The drummer of the Rolling Stones — a man of rare class, wit and distinction — has died at the age of 80
Ideology-based medicine
How the ”Science-Based Medicine” blog succumbed to the pressure of trans ideology
A fully-packed bookcase
Three books that each offer a traditional holiday-reading pleasure
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history