History
How I discovered Art and Architecture
Daniel Johnson reflects on the great discoveries of his youth
The Grand Tour – what the British got up to abroad
Looking back on the Georgian European vacation with the historian Jeremy Black
Emperor Haile Selassie gets the Ozymandias treatment
The Ethiopian emperor has fallen in leafy Wimbledon, but there’s more to his demise than meets the eye
Decolonise … Maths?
Algebra and arithmetic in the modern sense were not due to the Greeks, writes Mark Ronan
The most hateful decision
Honour, power and will at Mers-el-Kébir 80 years ago today
Portugal’s bookish dictator
At least in the eyes of his supporters, António de Oliveira Salazar succeeded in making Portugal great again
Brideshead Revisited at 75
In its combination of glacial beauty and lovelorn desperation, Brideshead Revisited speaks to all readers, Alexander Larman writes
A plague on lazarettos
Buildings born of plagues do have a life as something other than problematic ruins
Storylines
Tom Chesshyre finds hidden tales on the platforms
Writer who caught the reality of war
Vasily Grossman was not only a great correspondent in World War Two but a courageous dissident
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe