Hugh Bonneville
Who will be the next National Treasure?
After Dame Judi Dench’s resignation as a “national treasure”, Romeo Coates considers the runners and riders for the role
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
Murders for March
Sharp lines, twisting plots and colourful characters
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
