Four Quartets
Ralph Fiennes, Four Quartets and the future of theatre
It’s impossible to hear Eliot’s meditations and not be reminded of our current national ordeal
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
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.
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement