Identity
The self(ie)
Filters seduce, but what happens when the flattering reflection becomes a carnival mirror?
Schools need a reality check
Our educators should be teaching the truth
The matter of Britain
Britain must rediscover its stories and dreams
Building for eternity
Earlier generations of Britons built for the next generation –– but we’re stuck in a selfish present
I’m not an “empath”
Against performative sensitivity
Corecore and cultural fragmentation
Young people are picking through the rubble of old aesthetics
Hold the back page
Football was once a spectacle. The grotesque Qatar World Cup reminds us of all it has become
What if it is just a phase?
Our conception of ourselves is never wholly fixed
Citizens of somewhere
Michael Henderson delves into two different radio programmes with identity at the centre
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
The blessings on our doorsteps
It is all too easy to forget the astonishing cultural wealth that lies close to hand in our medieval parish churches
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
