Culture
Yardbird: 100 Years of Charlie Parker
Dominic Green looks at the immortality of jazz saxophonist, Charlie Parker
Rail tracks
Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains
All you need is luck
Everything with The Beatles happened at double time, thrilling but draining too, says Sarah Ditum
‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ at 40: A book that can change your life
Alexander Larman recalls the glee and disbelief at one of literature’s most beguilingly horrible figures
Democratic capitalism on holiday: the buffet
Is the sophisticated joy of the buffet coming to an end?
Can theatres survive the crisis? And should they?
How can theatres come out of this, asks Alexander Larman
Strength and honour: looking back on 20 years of Gladiator
Are you not entertained?!
What does ‘decolonising the curriculum’ mean?
And what is oligarch money doing to the art world?
A Radical Proposal: Book reviews should review books
Give us more judgement, more opinions and more criticism
Where is the Waugh or Wodehouse of our time?
Comic writing: light distraction or social mirror?
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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
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
The sectarian state
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the Balkanisation of Britain