Division bells
What John Whittingdale really thinks of the BBC
The new culture minister airs his views on auntie
Sunak stumbles
The Prime Minister spent half of the afternoon trying to extract his foot from his mouth
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
Intellectual property
Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
The Rwanda Bill and the rule of law
Our constitutional tradition strictly separates international law from domestic law
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
