Gwendolyn Brooks
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian