Culture
Me and my gull
Seagull: True Story, Marylebone Theatre
Love among the sandwiches
Cesare, Somerset Opera, Frome Memorial Theatre
A lot to Bragg about
Melvyn Bragg’s “In Our Time” has been a rare civilised outpost at the BBC
On snatching a phone
We should all take steps to resist anti-social behaviour
Some observations on public commemoration
Memorials should be meaningful, not mawkish
Christianity is a culture
Christianity is not just a private faith, nor a set of traditions, but a way of individual and collective life
No one should have to support the BBC
If the BBC is worth keeping, it should be able to support itself
Mad for it
A review of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opera Holland Park
Why we have no new ideas
We appear to have reasoned our way into an intellectual dead end
The world’s greatest classical music festival?
This is democracy manifest
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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
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform