Franco
Fairgrounds, Franco, and the future of Spain
An author challenges her nation’s collective and individual self-deceptions
Spain and me
David Smith on why the years following Franco’s death will always hold a place in his heart
The dangerous lessons from Spain
Leading historian Nigel Jones argues the UK is now dangerously fractured along political lines
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
Guardrails of civilisation
If politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from the campus
How cinemas can save themselves
Watching films at the cinema should be a communal experience
Prophetic warnings
Error is the joy of pedants, be the error serious or trivial
ULEZ if you want to
Looking back at a week of villains, like Queen Victoria, and heroes, like Dehenna Davison
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
Remove the kid gloves
“Votes for 16-year-olds” has exposed our incoherent attitude towards young people
Why so few men take up the pen
With publishing now such a female-dominated industry, it’s no surprise that there are so few men writing fiction
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
Europe at the crossroads
The EU elections could see the populist right make significant gains