Culture
How I discovered Germany
Daniel Johnson on how he found a lost love for the Germans
Does the Mediterranean have a common culture?
And did its modern tourist industry develop naturally? Graham Stewart discusses with Professor Jeremy Black
Failing to escape Brexit in Buenos Aires
You can’t escape entitled Brits whingeing about Brexit, even in Argentina. But you may encounter the ghosts of Nazis
How Hollywood managed to celebrate German culture in 1954
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s musical coming out just nine years after the end of World War II invited Germany back into polite society
Is this the end of cinemagoing as we know it?
Will compulsory face-masks, social-distancing and an air of paranoia drive audiences to online streaming once and for all?
How I discovered secondhand books
A home with books is a launching pad for a life well lived, says Daniel Johnson
Something Changed: Can Jarvis Cocker recapture former glories in 2020?
Alexander Larman asks whether Jarvis Cocker’s latest album release will reignite his former success
Ripley returns
Rejoice, Ripley is back! But why are we so drawn to Patricia Highsmith’s anti-hero?
How I discovered classical music
Daniel Johnson describes the joy of indulging in music as a teenage boy
Can the arts world learn to love the Tories?
As the Government injects 1.57bn into arts and culture, Alexander Larman considers the reactions from those in the industry
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
