England
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Signs of life
Wales finally offered proof they aren’t destined to decline
England as it really is
US visitors may be in for an unexpected and unpleasant suprise
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration