Elizabeth I
A time for Anglican Royalism
The renewal of British tradition
Seductive, scholarly life of the poet-priest
This new biography of John Donne brings the centuries-dead poet to life
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Michael Gove’s new definition of “extremism” is extremely silly
We cannot define such a vague term with such vague terms
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
