Culture
Scares and spies
From ghostly thrills to Cold War chills
Bob Dylan and the mystery of traditional music
In becoming Bob Dylan, Robert Zimmerman entered a mysterious, invisible world
A transcendent life
James Stevens Curl’s 2018 demolition of the Modernist experiment signalled the return to high culture
Renewing culture for the Right
Why should the culture sector should still be in thrall to the left?
Caravaggio’s great extremes
Caravaggio’s art is a vivid rebuke to an artificial idealised reality
TalkSport Nationalism is the future
The radio station offers us a model for a healthier British culture
No one needs “privilege” to enjoy the theatre
Why Daniel Day-Lewis is wrong to think the working class need permission to go to the theatre
Why cousin marriage endures
Opposing cultural relativism is no excuse for cultural ignorance
The vanishing of the aspirational lower-middle class
A favourite punching bag of satirists was more noble and valuable than it seemed
Malice in theatreland
How activist theatre undermines the arts
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
Awards ceremonies are erasing women
Biological males should not receive awards intended for women
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age