Culture
Life is more important than art
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has failed to live up to its responsibility as an industry leader
Happy birthday to Hugh
Hugh Grant’s acting career has experienced a well-earned renaissance in recent years
Nowhere to hide
The struggles of hiding in a foreign country
The future of Britain’s stately homes
How has the coronavirus pandemic affected Britain’s country houses?
From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
Could Harry and Meghan have learnt from Edward and Wallis?
Graham Stewart and Alexander Larman discuss how the House of Windsor adapts and endures
In search of Old Mistresses
The National Gallery is putting women artists centre stage
Rats desert a thriving ship
The space for criticism to exist grows smaller and the archways that sustained its presence crumble away, laments Sarah Ditum
Is there such a thing as right-wing comedy?
The issue of political balance in comedy is no laughing matter
A grim chorus of philistines
Rishi’s £1.57 Billion handout to the arts sector is the last good news it’ll ever hear, says Robert Thicknesse
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
