Culture
A classic work of unbridled joy
This is the best popular edition ever produced of one of the most amusing books in our language
The Day of the Jackal: fifty years on
Alexander Larman remembers one of the most exciting, page-turning novels ever written
The G&S divide
A large proportion of the English drive themselves mad with a baroque cocktail of fury, snobbery and self-hatred over Gilbert and Sullivan
Impossible things before breakfast
At the V&A the lines between madness and sanity are blurred
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
Shostakovich: Piano concertos 1&2; piano trio 2 (Linn)
This is a recording that encapsulates the other, older side of Europe
Boris Bunter
Is our Prime Minister the Fat Owl of the Government?
Angels, demons and videotape
What American journalism’s “teaching moments” teach us about American journalism
War-war leads to jaw-jaw
This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache
Russell Beale on song as Bach
How the paternal gorgon finally attracts our empathy, waging a last intellectual battle
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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
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?