History
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
Myths of the Prophet Max
Daniel Johnson on the life and work of Max Weber, whose controversial views on democracy still resonate today
The dignity of domestic labour
Louise Perry says there is nothing demeaning about work traditionally done by women
A short history of UBI
Universal Basic Income has been around for a while
Too much of a maverick
Andrew Roberts reviews Haldane, by John Campbell
Spuds with everything
Potatoes were hyped as the key to a well-nourished populace by the European intelligentsia in the 1700s
Passing the Tebbit test
Dominic Lawson reviews 10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator, 1828-2020 by David Butterfield
The man who invented Gaslighting
Patrick Hamilton, the writer who inadvertently coined the term, had his own victims
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact