Culture
Back to the drawing board: How the modernist cult captured architecture
Mark Alan Hewitt’s book is a welcome breath of sound common sense in a field where expensive insanity seems to have ruled the roost for far too long
What the media missed about the Care Quality Commission’s Tavistock report
It seems something very disturbing is going on behind those doors; something the Gender Identity Development Service is too ashamed to admit
Why is The Feminist Library erasing women?
The Feminist Library holds the keys to grassroots feminist knowledge built up over decades – it should not kowtow to trans activists
Why can’t we have a good film of Noël Coward’s plays?
If one judged the playwright solely on the film versions of his work, one might be forgiven for believing that he had never been particularly accomplished
The history twisters
Nigel Jones warns that cinematic portrayals of historical events and figures could alter how we understand the past
Did Gaullism save France?
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the French experience from the liberation of 1944 through to the student unrest of 1968
Is this the end of monogamy as we know it?
As couples move away from the traditional binds of marriage, Julie Bindel wonders whether heterosexuals are soon to become the new sexual outlaws
Francis Bacon’s love affair with France
Limited to only 206 copies, ‘Francis Bacon: Francophile’ is an attractive book sure to be snapped up by Baconophiles
An American in search of the English national character
Daniel Pipes’s quest to understand the English national character leaves him none the wiser
Long nights and northern lights: a journey to Arctic Russia
The polar cities of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk somehow attract a hardcore of visitors for whom winter isn’t a dirty word