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Why Anglicans and art just don’t get along
An installation mimicking graffiti on the pillars of Canterbury Cathedral has caused an outcry
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals