Culture
Teens on screen
The coming of age genre is experiencing a renaissance
The celebrification of children’s literature
Children’s book publishing needs to take a step away from celebrities
Disclaimer: Mel Brooks is cancelled
HBO attempts to protect snowflakes from Blazing Saddles
Raphael & Rome after Lockdown
For art lovers, now is the perfect time to visit The Eternal City
All Booked Up
Is there a cure for bibliomania?
Gordon’s (Still) Alive: Flash Gordon at 40
Remembering the cult-classic science-fiction romp
Pasteurisation of the pub
Pubs may have reopened, but its new landlord is the Nanny State
Blame the Critic
Whose fault is acting essentialism?
Back to the future
Trainsplaining a new world order
Bridge Over Troubled Water: 50 Years On
Half a century on, the song remains an an eternally affecting evocation of the need for solidarity and comfort
Most Read
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
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
Return to SENDer
Labour has created a real chance to reform SEND, writes Zachary Marsh — but will it take it?
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring