Culture
Has the National Trust forgotten its purpose?
Constance Watson speaks to Anna Price about the National Trust’s misplaced priorities
Last orders
Is this the end of the hospitality industry?
Sculptor, wrecker and seducer
A beautiful book, but a fairly orthodox biography of the Hon. Stephen “Tommy” Tomlin
Benin’s bronze ambassadors
What the opening of the Edo Museum of West African Art means for the potential restitution of 2,807 historical bronze artefacts
Heaven and hell
Celebrate the return of normal life, but choose your guests with care
Cancelling mad men
What’s gotten into the Advertising Standards Authority?
Independent minds
Small local publishers are putting out the brightest and best new work
Sequel opportunities
What does Amazon’s purchase of MGM mean for cinema?
French Class
Michael Collins looks back Bertrand Burgalat’s career as the architect for the modern French pop sound
Cricket’s bible takes the knee
Michael Henderson says, hats off, everybody, to the troupers of the famous yellow Almanack
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Why Britain needs Popular Conservatism
The Conservative Party has not fulfilled the promise of Brexit or overcome the legacy of Blair
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
