Culture
Oval’s books go up in bureaucracy
We should mourn the loss of Oval Tube’s book swap library
Safe battles, safe applause
Our theatres fight yesterday’s battles to avoid confronting today’s risks
Desert love songs
Giulio Cesare, The English Concert, Barbican
The irrational theatre
The state of the National Theatre is tragic indeed
The arts are being crippled by conformity
A new report shows that the last place to find rebellion is the arts world
Artists must be allowed to dissent
British culture is drowning in shrill orthodoxies
Cultural institutions are offering kindergarten radicalism
Feel-good clichés are being embraced as revolutionary wisdom
Who are the household names now?
Cultural fragmentation has led to a decline in shared knowledge
The joys of the jumbo breakfast roll
Forget health for a moment and embrace grease and flavour
The establishment does not know what multiculturalism means
It requires tremendous knowledge and compromise — not just an understanding of different cuisines
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian